An ecosystem for Linked Humanities Data

TY - CHAP

T1 - An ecosystem for Linked Humanities Data

AU - Hoekstra, Rinke

AU - Meroño-Peñuela, A.

AU - Zijdeman, Richard L.

AU - Rijpma, Auke

AU - Dentler, K.

AU - Zandhuis, I.

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - The main promise of the digital humanities is the ability to perform scholar studies at a much broader scale, and in a much more reusable fashion. The key enabler for such studies is the availability of sufficiently well described data. For the field of socio-economic history, data usually comes in a tabular form. Existing efforts to curate and publish datasets take a top-down approach and are focused on large collections. This paper presents QBer and the underlying structured data hub, which address the long tail of research data by catering for the needs of individual scholars. QBer allows researchers to publish their (small) datasets, link them to existing vocabularies and other datasets, and thereby contribute to a growing collection of interlinked datasets. We present QBer, and evaluate our first results by showing how our system facilitates two use cases in socio-economic history.

AB - The main promise of the digital humanities is the ability to perform scholar studies at a much broader scale, and in a much more reusable fashion. The key enabler for such studies is the availability of sufficiently well described data. For the field of socio-economic history, data usually comes in a tabular form. Existing efforts to curate and publish datasets take a top-down approach and are focused on large collections. This paper presents QBer and the underlying structured data hub, which address the long tail of research data by catering for the needs of individual scholars. QBer allows researchers to publish their (small) datasets, link them to existing vocabularies and other datasets, and thereby contribute to a growing collection of interlinked datasets. We present QBer, and evaluate our first results by showing how our system facilitates two use cases in socio-economic history.

KW - Digital Humanities

KW - QBer

KW - Structured Data

KW - Linked Data

M3 - Chapter

VL - 1608

T3 - CEUR Workshop Proceedings

SP - 85

EP - 96

BT - 1st Workshop on Humanities in the Semantic Web (WHiSe)

A2 - Adamou, Alessandro

A2 - Daga, Enrico

A2 - Isaksen, Leif

CY - Aachen

ER -