Dear colleagues, this should be of some interest to our community too. They ask, among other things, for standardisation…
Regards, Øyvind > Anfang der weitergeleiteten Nachricht: > > On 11/1/17, 8:34 PM, "lod-boun...@lists.digitalhumanities.org on behalf of > Robert Warren" <lod-boun...@lists.digitalhumanities.org on behalf of > rwarr...@uoguelph.ca> wrote: > > After a hiatus of some years, the ADHO Linked Open Data Special Interest > Group is being reactivated under the joint leadership of trouble makers Molly > Hardy and Rob Warren. > > The original mission of the ADHO Linked Open Data (LOD) SIG was "to bridge > between the DH community and the semantic web community of practice, > encouraging and facilitating the interconnection and interoperability of open > online Humanities resources, by raising awareness of new developments (both > content and technology) and discussing and developing best practices". > > So far the adoption of Linked Open Data (LOD) has been modest in the DH > community. It still shows promise as a means of publishing and exchanging > data between projects and the creation of ontologies using semantic web > standards as a means of communicating complex abstractions and negotiating > areas of consensus merits further study. > > Some of the obstacles that are ongoing include poor user and > developer-oriented tools, lack of standardization within domains of study, > concerns over the applicability of discrete ontologies to complex humanities > discourse and limited 'clean' data sources with which to begin publication. > > This list is not exhaustive and additions are welcome. > > Please join us on the LOD SIG mailing list for further discussions about > moving things forward. Submissions can be made to > lod@lists.digitalhumanities.organd list registration can be made at > http://lists.lists.digitalhumanities.org/mailman/listinfo/lod > > Yours truly, > Rob Warren and Molly Hardy > Joint LODSIG Propagandists > _______________________________________________ > Lod mailing list > l...@lists.digitalhumanities.org > http://lists.lists.digitalhumanities.org/mailman/listinfo/lod >
