AdriArchCult database as Linked Open Data

a sketch for DARIAH

Neven Jovanović

September 20, 2023

A sketch for DARIAH-HR

DARIAH-HR conference Digital Humanities & Heritage, 25-27 October 2023

http://croala.ffzg.unizg.hr/adriarchcult-dariah/

What is DARIAH?

https://www.dariah.eu/

a European network supporting digital research and teaching in the arts and humanities

From 2014 DARIAH is a European Research Infrastructure Consortium.

Currently, DARIAH has 21 Members.

It has Cooperating Partners in ten non-member countries.

Croatia: https://dariah.hr/

Italy: http://dariah.cnr.it/

Why is DARIAH useful for AdriArchCult?

The AdriArchCult Database

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

(T. S. Eliot, The Rock, 1934)

  • City
  • Building
  • Artworks
  • Artist
  • Workshop
  • People
  • Institution
  • Book Copy
  • Bibliography
  • Primary Sources

Pro et contra

What will happen afterwards?

Add Linked Open Data level to the database

What is Linked Open Data?

Linked = we add an external ID to our records

Open = we add an internet address to our records

Why do we want Linked Open Data?

Our records can be accessed from the outside.

We can access external information.

How does a Linked Open Data system look like?

Wikidata

Michelangelo (Q5592) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5592

Andrea Palladio (Q177692) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q177692

What can we do for Wikidata?

Niccolò di Giovanni Fiorentino Q735988

Abbey of Santa Maria a Mare Q3950051 church building in Isole Tremiti, Italy

What can Wikidata do for us?

What to do?

  • Plan
  • Produce some pilots
  • Get involved (with Wikidata)
  • Get more people
  • Find a way to connect scholarship, general knowledge, and technology