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Linking and Sharing Data for the Humanities and Creative Arts: building the HuNI Virtual Laboratory
Humanities Networked Infrastructure
Dr Toby Burrows, HuNI Product Owner (University of W.A.)
Prof Deb Verhoeven, HuNI Project Director (Deakin University)
huni.net.au
wiki.huni.net.au
Building a new national data service that is of cultural significance and widely accessible, now and in the future The HuNI project is:
•Integrating cultural data at a national level
•Making this new data service accessible to all
•Connecting to the Linked Data Cloud
•Building the foundations for future growth
HuNI is…
• Big – 275,000 entities and growing
• Multi-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary – 28 data sources
• Capable of answering complex questions quickly
Users of the HuNI lab app can…
• Discover and explore across the aggregated data
• Make connections and create “socially-linked” data
• Save and share their data and their findings
• Curate and import their own data
HuNI prototype
HuNI will change the nature of humanities research
• Working with data on a much larger scale
• Breaking down disciplinary boundaries around data
• Promoting data sharing
• Encouraging collaboration to enrich data
The amphibology of humanities data
• How would you describe this music?
• What’s Australian about this song?
Project wiki
wiki.huni.net.au
HuNI website
huni.net.au
HuNI lab prototype
app.huni.net.au
* Testers
wanted
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