Linked Open Data ADHO Special Interest Group?

[Leif Isaksen]

With usual apologies for X-posting:

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations(ADHO) have just put
out a call for SIGs (see below)

I'd be interested in starting one for Linked Open Data in DH and
wondered if anyone else is thinking along the same lines? I should
emphasise that my key interest here is in connectivity between
independent online DH resources, rather than 'semantic/ontology
modelling' per se (which might be worth setting up as a SIG in its own
right?). The principal activities I'd personally like to see on it are

a) different projects and resource curators reaching out to connect
multilaterally
b) identification of common controlled vocabularies, gazetteers and thesauri
c) discussing best practice in SKOS, vocabulary management, semantic annotation

In contrast,
- nuanced scope-noting or development of specific RDF
vocabularies/ontologies, and/or
- closed interoperability projects
would probably be best kept to another list/SIG.

If anyone is interested then get in touch and we can organise a
Hangout to thrash out a full proposal. If someone has already started
one along these lines then please sign me up!

All the best

Leif

PS Despite the wording of the SIG protocol I've had it confirmed that
you don't need to be a member of an ADHO organisation to get involved.




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From: Neil Fraistat <nfra...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 9:51 PM
Subject: [Centernet] Call for ADHO Special Interest Groups
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Dear all,

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites its
members to propose a Special Interest Group (SIG). By forming a SIG,
those with similar professional specialties, interests, and aptitudes
can exchange ideas, stay current, and mobilize to pursue common goals
across the boundaries of ADHO’s individual Constituent Organizations.


For example, ADHO’s first SIG, Global Outlook::Digital Humanities
(GO::DH), aims to reduce barriers to communication and collaboration
“among researchers and students of the Digital Arts, Humanities, and
Cultural Heritage sectors in High, Mid, and Low Income Economies” by
promoting discovery, community-building, research, and advocacy.


To propose a SIG, an elected or appointed contact person should submit
a description of the group to ADHO’s Chair, currently Neil Fraistat.
Please see the SIG protocol for directions about producing the SIG
proposal, a model proposal, and further information.


If you will be attending DH 2013, we invite you to a SIG Slam, where
those interested in starting a SIG can do one-minute pitches about
them and meet with others who share their interests. The SIG Slam will
take place during the joint ADHO/centerNet General Members meeting at
lunchtime on Friday, July 19th.


Best,

Neil


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[CARLISLE, Philip]

Hi Leif,
We'd be very interested in joining such a SIG.

Phil

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[Stephen Stead]

Michael Charno and myself are organizing the following workshop in Vienna as part of CHNT18 in November:-

Belling the Cat:Making CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM) data available as Linked Open Data (LOD):

A practical hands-on workshop of a complete solution using freeware

Organizers: Stephen STEAD | Michael CHARNO, UK

The mice meet in council to debate the problem of the new cat in the district. One suggests that a bell should be attached to the cat to give a warning. This is greeted with universal approval until someone asks “How?” Cultural Heritage Informatics specialists are often heard to say “just publish your CRM data as linked open data so that others can use it”, but how do we actually do that? This workshop aims to lead attendees through the process of taking an export of delimited text (ie. comma separated values) from their database, converting it to CRM compatible RDF triples and then making them available via a triple store for consumption by humans or machines as linked open data. The course will provide an introduction to linked open data and then will lead users through a cookbook of simple to follow techniques for creating and publishing it. All software used in the workshop will be freeware and runs on the free and open source operating system Linux. The software and operating system are uniquely capable of running on underpowered hardware, making deploying it simple even with limited support from an IT department or support services. The full set of software and guidelines will be available to attendees (if you bring a USB stick)

This Workshop is supported by

[Ant Beck]

Excellent.
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The full set of software and guidelines will be available to attendees (if you bring a USB stick)

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Any chance you can make these available openly to all? To make things more pervasive then they need to be accessible to all audiences

Ta

Ant

On 05/07/13 12:41, Stephen Stead wrote:

Michael Charno and myself are organizing the following workshop in Vienna as part of CHNT18 in November:-

Belling the Cat:Making CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM) data available as Linked Open Data (LOD):

A practical hands-on workshop of a complete solution using freeware

Organizers: Stephen STEAD | Michael CHARNO, UK

The mice meet in council to debate the problem of the new cat in the district. One suggests that a bell should be attached to the cat to give a warning. This is greeted with universal approval until someone asks �How?� Cultural Heritage Informatics specialists are often heard to say �just publish your CRM data as linked open data so that others can use it�, but how do we actually do that? This workshop aims to lead attendees through the process of taking an export of delimited text (ie. comma separated values) from their database, converting it to CRM compatible RDF triples and then making them available via a triple store for consumption by humans or machines as linked open data. The course will provide an introduction to linked open data and then will lead users through a cookbook of simple to follow techniques for creating and publishing it. All software used in the workshop will be freeware and runs on the free and open source operating system Linux. The software and operating system are uniquely capable of running on underpowered hardware, making deploying it simple even with limited support from an IT department or support services. The full set of software and guidelines will be available to attendees (if you bring a USB stick)

This Workshop is supported by

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