Presentation gave during the DM2E final event i Pisa, December 11 2014

1. DM2E AND LINKED DATA
FOR DIGITAL SCHOLARS
WP3
Christian Morbidoni - Università Politecnica delle Marche
Alessio Piccioli - Net7 SRL

2. HOW CAN MACHINES HELP
SCHOLARS ?
• Machines do not think like scholars do …
• … they will not do your research for you! …
• Sorry :-)

3. HOW MACHINE CAN HELP
SCHOLARS ?
• But machines are better/faster than we are in:
• Reading/analysing data
• Collecting and merging data
• Transmitting and making data available
• So they can help scholars to
• Create meaningful data
• Transform data into something useful
• Visualise intermediate research results that can help scholars in reasoning

4. Ampere + Lod Live

5. Timelinejs + Bode letters

10. LINKED DATA
FOR HUMANITIES SCHOLARS
• To do this machines needs data first!
• Libraries have data, but it is not enough
• Some data can be auto-magically extracted…
• … but not always and not without help from humans
• … and we want data to be Linked Data
• Provides a uniform way to access data, so machines can reach it
• Provides a uniform data format (RDF) so machines can read data
• Hollows to connect to the web of data (reuse what is already out there)

11. • Here is where Pundit comes in
• Enabling you to create data by annotating
• structured data that machines can re-use
• collaboratively created data

13. ASK
Manage and explore notebooks

14. Access DM2E content via faceted search
purl.org/net/dm2e/search

15. • Create structured data by annotating text and images
• Share and publish your annotations
• Configure for your specific domain
• Custom annotation vocabularies
• Custom annotation templates
• REST API to consume annotations from third party apps

16. • Use it by…
• Including JS library in your web site
• Deploying a bookmarklet
• As-a-service (via feed.thepund.it)
• Links:
• Web site: http://thepund.it
• GitHub: https://github.com/net7/pundit2 , https://github.com/net7/pundit-server
• YES… IT IS OPEN SOURCE!

17. Live Demo
• Demos:
• Rome Sept. 2014: http://dev.thepund.it/dariah2014/
• Vienna Nov. 2014: http://dm2e-lab1.netseven.it/
• London Nov. 2014: http://dm2e-lab4.netseven.it/

18. KNOWLEDGE FLOW
S E P R
SEARCH
EXPLORE
ENRICH
AUGMENT
PUBLISH
REUSE
Live Demo

19. S E P R
SEARCH / LODPORTAL
Live Demo

20. S E P R
ENRICH / PUNDIT
Live Demo

21. ENRICH / PUNDIT / USER STORY
Person Time Place
1877/08/15
S E P R
Live Demo
Somebody was in a place on a date

22. S E P R
PUBLISH / TIMEMAPPER
Live Demo

23. Thank you.
christian.morbidoni@gmail.com
piccioli@netseven.it