DM2E AND LINKED DATAFOR DIGITAL SCHOLARS

WP3 Christian Morbidoni - Università Politecnica delle Marche

Alessio Piccioli - Net7 SRL

HOW CAN MACHINES HELP SCHOLARS ?

• Machines do not think like scholars do …

• … they will not do your research for you! …

• Sorry :-)

HOW MACHINE CAN HELP SCHOLARS ?

• But machines are better/faster than we are in:

• Reading/analysing data

• Collecting and merging data

• Transmitting and making data available

• So they can help scholars to

• Create meaningful data

• Transform data into something useful

• Visualise intermediate research results that can help scholars in reasoning

Ampere + Lod Live

Timelinejs + Bode letters

LINKED DATA FOR HUMANITIES SCHOLARS

• To do this machines needs data first!

• Libraries have data, but it is not enough

• Some data can be auto-magically extracted…

• … but not always and not without help from humans

• … and we want data to be Linked Data

• Provides a uniform way to access data, so machines can reach it

• Provides a uniform data format (RDF) so machines can read data

• Hollows to connect to the web of data (reuse what is already out there)

• Here is where Pundit comes in

• Enabling you to create data by annotating

• structured data that machines can re-use

• collaboratively created data

ASK Manage and explore notebooks

Access DM2E content via faceted search purl.org/net/dm2e/search

• Create structured data by annotating text and images

• Share and publish your annotations

• Configure for your specific domain

• Custom annotation vocabularies

• Custom annotation templates

• REST API to consume annotations from third party apps

• Use it by…

• Including JS library in your web site

• Deploying a bookmarklet

• As-a-service (via feed.thepund.it)

• Links:

• Web site: http://thepund.it

• GitHub: https://github.com/net7/pundit2 , https://github.com/net7/pundit-server

• YES… IT IS OPEN SOURCE!

• Demos:

• Rome Sept. 2014: http://dev.thepund.it/dariah2014/

• Vienna Nov. 2014: http://dm2e-lab1.netseven.it/

• London Nov. 2014: http://dm2e-lab4.netseven.it/

Live Demo

KNOWLEDGE FLOW

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Person Time Place

1877/08/15

Somebody was in a place on a date

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ENRICH / PUNDIT / USER STORY

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PUBLISH / TIMEMAPPER

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Thank you.

christian.morbidoni@gmail.compiccioli@netseven.it