On 25 Oct 2012 we hold a skills workshop on 'Linked Data in the Digital Humanities', part of the 'Realising the Opportunities of Digital Humanities' event, organised by the Digital Repository Ireland (DRI), Royal Irish Academy in Dublin.
This little Web application, developed by Nuno and Michael, demonstrates the power of Linked Data. It is driven by Linked Data we generated ourselves (well, actually Anna did the heavy lifting) and is served from a dedicated SPARQL endpoint. The Linked Data we used was generated from the data available in a Google Spreadsheet and the transformation of this data into RDF is presented in this screencast.
You might need to install the Requests library first. To run the proxy that is needed for querying the SPARQL endpoints launch:
$ python ab-proxy.py
2012-10-20T03:28:40 INFO AB server started, use {Ctrl+C} to shut-down ...
Then, you can open http://localhost:8998/ in your browser and should see the following:
If you then search for either authors (such as Goethe) or book titles (like, Moby Dick) you should see something like:
All software in this repository is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 and all Linked Data is being made available under CC0.