Knowledge Commons | Linked Open Data | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/linked-open-data/ Activity feed for the group, Linked Open Data. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:41:17 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 6ad43b555892ed49945f0a558b793c22 Elton Barker deposited Journeying through Space and Time with Pausanias’s Description of Greece in the group Linked Open Data https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1839766/ Wed, 05 Apr 2023 02:25:23 -0400 Sometime in the second century CE, Pausanias of Magnesia (modern-day Turkey) wrote the Description of Greece. Ostensibly a tour of the places to see on the Greek mainland, the Description also provides historical accounts related to the topography through which Pausanias moves. Little attention has been given to how these building blocks of…[Read more]

]]> 0 dd6031bd4455edf77984899e7e7132f2 Sarah Middle deposited Survey: Using Digital Tools and Resources for Ancient World Research in the group Linked Open Data https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791356/ Wed, 24 Aug 2022 02:24:16 -0400 My CHASE-funded PhD in Classical Studies at the Open University, in which this survey played a crucial role, investigated Linked Ancient World Data usability. The survey took place during April-May 2018 and was aimed at anyone involved in Ancient World research, with any level of digital expertise. Questions related to participants' experiences of…[Read more]

]]> 0 d6544fbe97bc5c5eb533bc116aba8922 Elton Barker deposited Pelagios – Connecting Histories of Place. Part I: Methods and Tools in the group Linked Open Data https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1758315/ Fri, 12 Nov 2021 02:25:00 -0500 This article provides a short history of the methods and tools developed by the Pelagios initiative: a series of seven projects dedicated to linking digital historical resources based on the geographic places to which they relate and refer. The first section of the article situates the work within the wider field of semantic and geospatial…[Read more]

]]> 0 46d0c166bde55f202c513b65a1cd924f Michael Lyons deposited Indiscretions of a Contemporary Artist: Reflections on Trevor Paglen's (ab)use of the JAFFE dataset in the group Linked Open Data https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1753121/ Wed, 29 Sep 2021 02:24:25 -0400 Reflections on artist Trevor Paglen's (ab)use of the JAFFE dataset

]]> 0 16e8090c39e2d7f86c04eb135d5cb746 Michael Lyons deposited Indiscretions of a Contemporary Artist: Reflections on Trevor Paglen's (ab)use of the JAFFE dataset in the group Linked Open Data https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1752646/ Thu, 23 Sep 2021 03:49:15 -0400 The article contains a historical account and commentary on Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford's unauthorized use of the JAFFE dataset.

]]> 0 2c4c118a3b2126323ededc8c6e92235c Michael Lyons deposited “Excavating AI” Re-excavated: Debunking a Fallacious Account of the JAFFE Dataset in the group Linked Open Data https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1747828/ Thu, 29 Jul 2021 02:24:37 -0400 Twenty-five years ago, my colleagues Miyuki Kamachi and Jiro Gyoba and I designed and photographed JAFFE, a set of facial expression images intended for use in a study of face perception. In 2019, without seeking permission or informing us, Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen exhibited JAFFE in two widely publicized art shows. In addition, they…[Read more]

]]> 0 83adf8a2eb4fe221478a9ed8371e3680 Michael Lyons deposited Excavating 'Excavating AI': The Elephant in the Gallery in the group Linked Open Data https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1726754/ Tue, 09 Feb 2021 02:24:21 -0500 Two art exhibitions, "Training Humans" and "Making Faces," and the accompanying essay "Excavating AI: The politics of images in machine learning training sets" by Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen, are making substantial impact on discourse taking place in the social and mass media networks, and some scholarly circles. Critical scrutiny reveals,…[Read more]

]]> 0 c63ce66302e9e0a35d2b680340dcee3e Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Esbozos sobre la evolución y el futuro de un pionero de las humanidades digitales hispánicas: el proyecto PhiloBiblon in the group Linked Open Data https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1710841/ Sun, 04 Oct 2020 02:25:33 -0400 El presente artículo es un sucinto repaso del devenir histórico y tecnológico de PhiloBiblon, uno de los proyectos pioneros en las Humanidades Digitales aplicadas al estudio de las fuentes primarias de las literaturas hispánicas e ibéricas escritas durante la Edad Media y el Renacimiento. La historia del proyecto tiene como hilo conductor las dife…[Read more]

]]> 0 be14a407328ebafead6d8b4fde16ef0a Thomas Hänsli deposited Topographia Helvetiae. Linked Art in Switzerland - from panel 'Linked Art: Networking Digital Collections and Scholarship' in the group Linked Open Data https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1704164/ Tue, 04 Aug 2020 02:24:26 -0400 The historical view of Switzerland’s nature and landscape has been defined by artworks describing a ‘visual topography’ of the Alpine country long before the emergence of a broader touristic interest for Switzerland across Europe. Paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs depicting alpine landscapes, natural monuments, picturesque villa…[Read more]

]]> 0 8d5d7cbeac8912aad01c97b203ba8057 Kevin Page deposited Linked Data and Open Data in Cultural Heritage - from panel 'Linked Art: Networking Digital Collections and Scholarship' in the group Linked Open Data https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702876/ Sat, 25 Jul 2020 02:26:16 -0400 Cultural heritage institutions have a great deal to gain from deeply engaging in the networked environment. They have poured many resources in the digitization of their collections for the benefit of their audiences, from students to experts, who want to have access to more online material of a higher quality. The current landscape of cultural…[Read more]

]]> 0 4dbf24ada8162d71dc557b61091b8870 Kevin Page deposited An interactive multimedia companion to Wagner’s Lohengrin: encoding and visualising a motivic study - video of demonstration in the group Linked Open Data https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702559/ Fri, 24 Jul 2020 02:28:02 -0400 This is a short demonstration accompanying a poster with the same title, which can be found at: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:31987 A longer video introducing the study, along with additional materials, can be found at: https://um.web.ox.ac.uk/lohengrin

]]> 0 c839924832a8970e9446a473fd5fa05d Elie Roux deposited Presentation of the BUDA platform at Linked Pasts IV in the group Linked Open Data https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1627404/ Sat, 29 Dec 2018 16:25:29 -0500 Presentation of some aspects of the BUDA platform at the LinkedPasts IV conference in Mainz. The BUDA platform is a Linked Open Data platform for Buddhist studies, focusing mostly on Bibliography, Prosopography and Geography.

]]> 0 e6eb26dfd01f22242c26d2785e1e2ea2 Sarah Middle deposited Identifying research methods for the use and production of Linked Ancient World Data in the group Linked Open Data https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1626136/ Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:25:48 -0500 This poster presents findings from a recent survey of Ancient World researchers, which sought to identify research methods associated with the use and production of digital resources in general and with Linked Data in particular. It illustrates the results of the survey using graphs and charts, accompanied by a brief explanation of the methodology…[Read more]

]]> 0 ce61b2eebd51d6d2e06a3fd2bed4d7f2 Sharon Leon deposited How Shall We Represent Their Lives? The Enslaved Community Owned and Sold by the Maryland Province Jesuits in the group Linked Open Data https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623228/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 16:26:31 -0500 In 1838 Thomas Mulledy, S.J. signed his name to an agreement selling the 275 enslaved persons who resided on Jesuit-owned estates in Southern Maryland to Louisiana. The sale served as the culmination of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus’s fraught experience with slaveholding in the colonial and early national period. While much h…[Read more]

]]> 0 cb3a93ea182bd15d728c43c858064678 Lukas Fuchsgruber deposited Experts and Auctioneers in Paris Art Auctions 1852-1862 in the group Linked Open Data https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1608960/ Wed, 23 May 2018 04:12:27 -0400 From 1852 the Hôtel Drouot was the space where the French auctioneers (Commissaires-Priseurs) - who held a stately sanctioned monopoly - organized their auctions. By processing data from the art auction catalogue repertory by Frits Lugt and the extended version Art Sales Catalogues Online, it is possible to map the networks of art marketing at…[Read more]

]]> 0 04558ff4c914a609168e69280cc808e0 Jefferson Pooley deposited Scholarly Communications Shouldn’t Just Be Open, but Non-Profit Too in the group Linked Open Data https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1578918/ Wed, 16 Aug 2017 01:03:29 -0400 Much of the rhetoric around the future of scholarly communication hinges on the “open” label. In light of Elsevier’s recent acquisition of bepress and the announcement that, owing to high fees, an established mathematics journal’s editorial team will split from its publisher to start an open access alternative, Jefferson Pooley argues that the sch…[Read more]

]]> 0 19e06f00eac6365322bac96a5d8b8c3b Jefferson Pooley deposited A Curious Tale of Economics and Common Carriage (Net Neutrality) at the FCC: A Reply to Faulhaber, Singer, and Urschel in the group Linked Open Data https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575026/ Sat, 01 Jul 2017 01:00:36 -0400 This reply to "The Curious Absence of Economic Analysis at the Federal Communications Commission" (Faulhaber, Singer, & Urschel, 2017) makes three claims. First, we document the paper's undisclosed origins as a white paper commissioned by an advocacy group with deep ties to the telecommunications industry. Second, we describe two of the authors'…[Read more]

]]> 0 55d61e8d77e9a79bdcde59e3cea97aa6 Georg Vogeler deposited The Content of Accounts and Registers in their Digital Edition in the group Linked Open Data https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1570090/ Thu, 11 May 2017 01:00:53 -0400 This article considers the use of semantic web technologies in the context of everyday historians. It deduces from theoretical considerations needs for the actual implementation of a digital edition. It explains some of the basic concepts of the semantic web more extensively than necessary for the digital humanities scholar already familiar with…[Read more]

]]> 0 88d52a7f8acb6fb022eeb98c3e85b807 Émilie Pagé-Perron deposited Machine Translation and Automated Analysis of Cuneiform Languages (MTAAC) in the group Linked Open Data https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1567355/ Sun, 30 Apr 2017 01:19:50 -0400 Project Abstract: Ancient Mesopotamia, birthplace of writing, has produced vast numbers of cuneiform tablets that only a handful of highly specialized scholars are able to read. The task of studying them is so labor intensive that the vast majority have not yet been translated, with the result that their contents are not accessible either to…[Read more]

]]> 0 beac8c031bcc66ae8ccfb2c845e694f3 Jefferson Pooley deposited The Impact Platform in the group Linked Open Data https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1563389/ Tue, 28 Feb 2017 01:00:32 -0500 The Conversation—”academic rigour, journalistic flair”—is the leading example of a new, web-enabled mode of academic popularization: the impact platform. The nonprofit site’s unpaid scholar-writers, together with professional staff editors, produce dozens of short, image-filled dispatches every week day. In a crucial twist, each piece is released…[Read more]

]]> 0 a5388ff62a472bbb961694f30f856091 Colin Greenstreet started the topic Maphackathon Zotero bibliographical group in the discussion Linked Open Data https://hcommons.org/groups/linked-open-data/forum/topic/maphackathon-zotero-bibliographical-group-3/ Mon, 02 Jan 2017 12:47:56 -0500 The maphackathon organising group have created a maphackathon Zotero bibliographical group. The group library is available for all to view, but to contribute and to edit you will need to be an invited member.

 

We would be delighted if members of the Humanities Commons Open-Source Historical Mapping group, the Digital Humanists group and the…[Read more]

]]> b3312c1f7df9b9b38bce525ec77c1b92 Émilie Pagé-Perron deposited Abstract : Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative White Paper for the Global Philology Project in the group Linked Open Data https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1555138/ Fri, 09 Dec 2016 01:05:00 -0500 Talk Abstract

]]> 0 f0292c92584275a971c743eeffce79f4 Colin Greenstreet started the topic Linked data using Semantic Media Wiki for humantities projects in the discussion Linked Open Data https://hcommons.org/groups/linked-open-data/forum/topic/linked-data-using-semantic-media-wiki-for-humantities-projects/ Tue, 06 Dec 2016 12:22:32 -0500 The MarineLives project uses a semantic media wiki as its platform to view and transcribe manuscript images, to annotate transcribed pages, and to create semantic biographies. RDF data are available for download and reuse by other researchers. All data downloadable on a CC BY 3.0 licence.

 

The MarineLives wiki is built on a PHP-based stack:
- Me…[Read more]

]]> de2891e57fee88ab94df8413eeb74683 Colin Greenstreet posted an update in the group Linked Open Data: Use of semantic media wiki in humanities projects. The […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1554682/ Tue, 06 Dec 2016 07:40:43 -0500 Use of semantic media wiki in humanities projects. The MarineLives project uses a semantic media wiki as its platform to view and transcribe manuscript images, to annotate transcribed pages, and to create semantic biographies [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Category:Semantic_biography] which can be linked. RDF data is available for download and…[Read more]

]]> 0 1fdf3a999457212710db880b962cfb17 Émilie Pagé-Perron created the group Linked Open Data https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1554390/ Sat, 03 Dec 2016 23:23:29 -0500 0