Week 10: Linked Open Data

Response due Monday

Tuesday, April 1: Principles of LOD

• Readings:
  • Editor’s Note: May 2024, Reviews in Digital Humanities issue on Linked open Data, Roopika Risam, Jennifer Guiliano, Kim Martin, and Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller
  • Browse 5-Star Data principles
  • Optional: Tim Berners-Lee, “Linked Data” (2006-07-27)
  • Explore “Enslaved” project and read Review; explore 1-2 stories
  • Read: Review of “World Historical Gazeteer” and browse the World Historical Gazeteer site
• In class
  • Discussion of LOD principles, projects & readings
  • SNAC project
  • APIs
  • Slides: Linked Open Data

Thursday, April 3: Wikidata

Guest: Tessa Eisen, Educational & Scholarly Technology Assistant

Reading

• “Wikidata:Introduction”, wikidata.org

In Class

• Wikidata Queries
  • Understanding SPARQL Queries on Wikidata guide by Tessa Eisen
  • Wikidata Query Service for SPARQL queries
  • Wikidata Query Builder - a GUI for simple queries

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