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title Sharing Linked Data
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Will Hanley
date 2019-01-01
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Overview

Introduction

In its early years, the digital humanities were characterized by many projects that emphasized form over content, as digital humanists built tools that lived in (sometimes) splendid isolation, subject to natural selection. The Linked Open Data approach tends to be more skeptical about tool building, suggesting that the payoff on investment in tool development is often limited. This approach prioritizes the distribution of content itself, preferring to work with existing tools and initiatives rather than to create new ones. Sustainability, usefulness, and collaboration can be enhanced when digital humanists work with an assemblage of existing, supported tools and techniques rather than inventing their own.

1 Join an existing project

PerioDo VIAF? WikiData (via Wikipedia)

2 Set up a SPARQL endpoint

A) Amazon Web Service

B) DIY serving

Note: This is not a secure undertaking. Back up your data offline. Expect failure. This technique is suitable for limited experimentation.

Next Steps

  • find institutional support

Acknowledgements

I wrote this lesson while Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study. My friend and neighbor Kelly Hirai and Kurt Rosenwein of FSU computer support helped me set up my first small server.