We’re very happy to announce that the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond has joined Civil War Data 150 as a partner organization. The team at UR brings particular expertise on the history and geography of nineteenth-century America and the Civil War.
According to Scott Nesbit, Associate Director of the Digital Scholarship Lab and a Civil War historian, “Civil War Data 150 is an exciting project on a number of levels, none more than the prospect that linked data will help us to answer questions that we had not even asked before, because they seemed too difficult to address using searching with traditional methods in isolated archives.”
Here are the slides from my June 15th guest lecture, which is now available as a webcast (Firefox or IE required), and as a free video podcast on iTunes. Thanks for having me San Jose State!
I’ve also published the links for the Dig Deeper slide here.
Abstract
Jon Voss will discuss Civil War Data 150 (“CWD150″), a collaborative project of the Archives of Michigan, the Internet Archive, and Freebase. CWD150 seeks to link Civil War archives and data from separate state and national sources in an open community-maintained database (Freebase), and create interactive web applications to help crowdsource the data linking. The project presents research questions of particular interest to archivists regarding the use of strong identifiers and shared ontologies, as well as uses for shared metadata in the context of the Semantic Web.
