Lynn Ransom

A Linked Open Data Service and Portal for Pre-modern Manuscript Research

2019 · Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications

This paper presents a Linked Open Data publishing model for aggregating data from heterogeneous, distributed pre-modern manuscript databases into a global, harmonized data model and service. Our research hypothesis is that on top of the …

Leveraging the Power of Crowdsourcing and Linked Open Data: Transformation of the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts and the SDBM Name and Place Authorities

2023 · Journal of Library Metadata

Linked data technologies are natural fits for building and managing controlled vocabularies and authorities, especially in a crowd-sourced environment where managing data integrity can be a challenge. This paper considers the role of researchers in …