LINKED OPEN DATA FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES.

"Linked Open Data for Digital Humanities provides insights into how digital technologies can enrich and diversify humanities scholarship and make it pioneering in the digital age. Written in non-specialist language, the book illustrates how information is captured, published, represented, accessed, and interpreted using computational systems and, in doing so, shows how technologies actively shape the way we understand what we encounter. Focusing as it does on underlying Web architecture and projects accessible online, the book has an inherently international focus. The interdisciplinary case study examples include bibliographic data from works published in England between 1470 and 1700; literature from ancient Iraq; jazz performances, predominantly from the USA in the 1930s; and even reach as far as an alien, fictional future. Whilst these case study examples span vast spatio-temporal distances, they all share a common thread in the use of the Linked Data information publication paradigm. Using existing computer science methods, as well as processes such as ontology development and database design, the book also includes reflections on practical considerations and offers advice about how to take institutional policies, socio-cultural sensitivities and economic models into consideration when implementing Linked Data projects. Linked Open Data for Digital Humanities discusses technological issues in the context of Humanities scholarship, bridging disciplines and enabling informed conversations across disciplinary boundaries. It will be of interest to humanities scholars, computer and data scientists, and library and information scientists"-- Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Dedication Contents Preface Context for This Book How to Read This Book Who Should Read This Book Structure of the Book Conventions Used in This Book In Summary Acknowledgements Abbreviations Bibliography 1 A False Dichotomy 1.1 Preamble 1.2 Interdisciplinarity 1.3 Snow’s Two Cultures 1.4 The Role of Humanities in Computer Science 1.5 Linked Data and the Humanities – A Perfect Pair? 1.5.1 The First Wittgenstein and the RDF Triple 1.5.2 The Second Wittgenstein and Explicit Statement of Facts 1.5.3 Foucault, Semantic Web, and Properties 1.5.4 Meaning Derived From Connections 1.6 Conclusion Bibliography 2 Privacy, Ethics, and Trust 2.1 Preamble 2.2 The Unavoidable Orwellian Reference 2.3 Privacy as a Right, Not a Privilege 2.4 Privacy Paradox 2.5 Trusting Data Producers, Trusting Data Consumers 2.6 Potential for Disaster 2.7 We Need to Talk About Strava 2.8 On the Questions of Ethics 2.9 Conclusion Bibliography 3 Closed But Not for Business 3.1 Preamble 3.2 Data 3.2.1 Unreproducible Data 3.2.2 Unstructured Data 3.2.3 Ambiguous Data 3.2.4 Incomplete Data 3.2.5 Messy Data 3.4 Openness 3.4.1 Open Source 3.4.2 Open Access 3.4.3 Open Data 3.4.4 Linked Open Data 3.5 Be FAIR, and CARE 3.6 To Be or Not to Be Open? 3.7 Solutions Combining Accessible and Inaccessible Data 3.8 Case Study: The ElePHãT Project (Bibliographic Metadata) 3.9 Conclusion Bibliography 4 “Truth” and Bias 4.1 Preamble 4.2 Ontologies 4.3 Bias in Ontologies 4.4 Document Your Design 4.5 Justify Your Choices 4.6 Case Study: Old Babylonian Literature 4.6.1 Choosing the Case Study 4.6.2 Three Ox-Drivers of Adab 4.6.3 Ontological Representation 4.6.3.1 Material Objects in Museums 4.6.3.2 Bibliographical Metadata 4.6.3.3 Narrative Structure 4.7 Conclusion Bibliography 5 Data Demands 5.1 Preamble 5.2 The More Things Change 5.3 Bias in Tool Recommendations 5.4 Different Demands of Different Technologies 5.6 Case Study: JazzCats 5.6.1 Tabular Data: The Body and Soul Discography 5.6.2 Relational Databases to RDF: Weimar Jazz Database 5.6.3 Ready-Made RDF: Linked Jazz 5.6.4 Querying Across Three Datasets Using SPARQL 5.7 Conclusion Bibliography 6 Future Directions 6.1 Preamble 6.2 The Non-Linear Approach to Discussing Linked Data in the Digital Humanities 6.3 The Tech-Focused Summary of Linked Data in the Digital Humanities 6.4 Conclusion Bibliography Glossary Index