Linked Data for the Humanities workshop

[Terhi Nurmikko]

Linked Data for the Humanities Workshop: A semantic web of scholarly data

Part of the Digital Humanities Oxford Summer School, held 20th - 24th July 2015.

Book your place via http://dhoxss.humanities.ox.ac.uk/2015/linkeddata.html 

Come and learn from experts and engage with participants from around the world, from every field and career stage. Develop your knowledge and acquire new skills to support your interest in Linked Data for the Humanities. Immerse yourself in this specialist topic for a week, and widen your horizons through the keynote and additional sessions.

The Linked Data in the Humanities workshop introduces the concepts and technologies behind Linked Data and the Semantic Web and teach attendees how they can publish their research so that it is available in these forms for reuse by other humanities scholars, and how to access and manipulate Linked Data resources provided by others. The Semantic Web tools and methods described over the week use distinct but interwoven models to represent services, data collections, workflows, and the domain of an application. Topics covered will include: the RDF format; modelling your data and publishing to the web; Linked Data; querying RDF data using SPARQL; and choosing and designing vocabularies and ontologies.

The workshop comprises a series of lectures and hands-on tutorials. Lectures introduce theoretical concepts in the context of Semantic Web systems deployed in and around the humanities, many of which are introduced by their creators. Each lecture is paired with a practical session in which attendees are guided through their own exploration of the topics covered.

Book your place via http://dhoxss.humanities.ox.ac.uk/2015/linkeddata.html 

For more information about the Digital Humanities Oxford Summmer School, see http://dhoxss.humanities.ox.ac.uk/2015/ .