FW: LODAH COST action proposal
Vladimir Alexiev
Hi all!
A COST TDP action proposal is being put together by Sebastian Rahtz, Kai Eckert, Elena Gonzalez-Blanco and several more people.
The deadline is today and writing proceeds at a furous pace J
If you’d like to be a co-proposer, please:
1. Register at https://e-services.cost.eu
2. Send your name and email to Kai (in CC)
In particular, we need people from other than these countries:
COST Country Institutions (9) : Germany 
, Spain 
, United Kingdom 
, Italy 
, Malta 
, France 
, Norway 
, Sweden 
, Bulgaria 
Here is the doc: LOD@DH COST action. If you want to edit ask Kai, but there’s little time to get involved in the writing.
Cheers!
TITLE: Linked Open Data across the Humanities
ACRONYM: LODAH
The mission of this Trans-Domain COST Action is to create a bridge between the Digital Humanities community and the semantic web community, by building a network of projects and researchers working with Linked Open Data (LOD) in the field of humanities and computer science. The specific objectives will be promoting and supporting the interconnection and interoperability of open online Humanities resources, both existing and forthcoming, through LOD; raising awareness of new developments (both content and technology); and discussing, developing, and publishing best practices. The main activities of LODAH will be to survey and map the use of ontologies adopted across humanities; to investigate on how they relate to each other; to identify gaps where disciplines are lacking clear exemplars and guidance; to build guidelines designed not only to reduce the fragmentation of approaches and ontologies, but also to foster integration of methods and resources; and to find and possibly link other research initiatives in related fields. This will happen by both testing ontologies and techniques developed for humanities data against the concerns of information engineering, and by testing the assumptions of data networks against the complexity of the humanities. This will make it easier for different stakeholders - from citizens to professionals to communities to cultural institutions to SMEs - to create, reach, use, reuse and manage, complex historical, literary or philosophical datasets, and provide a marketplace for European SMEs to develop new tools and services. The initial LODAH membership includes a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, but is also open to unforeseen domains and will be an environment in which young researchers can develop portable skills.
KEYWORDS: Digital Humanities; Linked Open Data; Semantic Web; Cultural Heritage
Areas of Expertise needed for Evaluation: Technology, Humanities