About Linked Open Data
Some resources for getting going with Linked Open Data.
Good introductions
- Berners-Lee, “The Semantic Web”, Scientific American
- FREYA, “The power of PIDs” (YouTube Video) and a Zenodo version with a PID.
- ⭐ Nurmikko-Fuller, Linked Data for Digital Humanities (available through your library)
- Oldman, “Zen and the Art of Linked Data” Blackwell Companion to DH.
- ⭐ Posner, “Introduction to Linked Open Data” (YouTube Video)
- Smith, “Working with the Semantic Web”, Doing Digital Humanities
- W3C LOD site** with tons of links
More technical
- Antoniou and Harmelen, A Semantic Web Primer (hard copy available through your library)
- Domingue, Fensel and Hendler, ed. A Handbook of Semantic Web Technologies (online through library)
- Flanders, Bauman, and Connell “Text Encoding”, Doing Digital Humanities: Practice, Training, Research [For those interested in XML as a basis for linked open data]
- Introducing Linked Data And The Semantic Web (tutorial)
- Introduction to the Principles of Linked Open Data, The Programming Historian (online tutorial)
Ontologies
- Bruseker, Introduction to Formal Ontologies, Parthenos (video tutorial)
- Noy and McGuinness, “Ontology Development 101”
- Web Annotation Architecture, W3C (Interactive diagram walkthrough)
Vocabularies
- Digital Library Federation, Inclusive Metadata Toolkit.
Tools for working with LOD
###Java
JSON-LD
Python
RDF Conversion
SPARQL resources
- SPARQL Query Validator (validates for SPARQL syntax, not logic or adherence to ontology)
- SPARQLer Query Validator (validates for SPARQL syntax, not logic or adherence to ontology)
Additional resources
The Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship site contains extensive introductory material, resources, and a full glossary of terms related to Linked Open Data.