Linked Open Data

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Open Data principles

• 5-star Open Data
• FAIR data - Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable

Examples

• SNAC: Social Networks and Archival Contexts
• Wikidata
• IIIF: International Image Interoperability Framework
• Digital Benin

API: Application Programming Interface

“An API allows you to programmatically extract and interact with data under the hood of websites”

• from Walsh’s Cultural Analytics textbook

What can you do with Linked Open Data?

• Build a game: Wikitrivia
• Enhance your dataset: adding wikidata IDs so queries can bring up more information
• Create visualizations
• Create a Visual Essay: e.g. Plant Humanities Lab

Juncture

• GitHub/markdown based tool for text + images, visualizations
• Supports IIIF and Wikimedia/Wikidata IDs
• To get started:
  • Use the Juncture documentatian
  • Quick Start: set up an essay, explains basic tags
  • To learn more about particular viewer tags and customizations, use the left-hand menu for the documentation

Wikidata

• Wikidata Query Service Tutorial by Wikimedia Israel
• “Wikidata:Introduction”, wikidata.org