I’d like to talk about what the open data really holds for Humanities study. Open Linked Data and the Semantic Web is really hot right now, and they seem to be buzzwords included in a lot of proposals, funding requests, etc. But how can the technologies really be leveraged for Humanities research and study? What can having an ecosystem of open data do to change the traditional landscape? What might such an ecosystem look like (i.e. what kind of data do we really have in the Humanities…is it just bibliography and metadata, or is there more)? What can traditional scholars learn from contributing to open data repositories or from utilizing such resources?
To help spark the conversation, it may be helpful to read over the RDF Cookbook for Digital Humanities, a collaborative document started several months ago.
