Dear Colleagues,

As part of our Research Project „Modelling Premodern Ambivalences“ (VAMOD) at the GWZO in Leipzig we are offering a 10month position until end of December 2025. The project is funded by NFDI4Memory and will offer plenty of possibilities to build up expertise and networks within the field of Digital Humanities.

The goal of the project is to transfer research data from my first book into the Wikibase instance FactGrid in accordance with the FAIR principles. The dataset comprises approximately 800 charters with about 1,600 place names and 5,000 personal names for the present-day Polish-Ukrainian border region (“Crown Ruthenia” or “Red Ruthenia”) between 1340 and 1434. During the transfer, innovative approaches to modelling premodern political configurations will be explored, which will be documented through guidelines and best-practice recommendations, thereby making them sustainably available to the historical research community.

If you can, please share widely!

Quelle: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/3845

We are delighted to announce that PhiloBiblon, a database of the primary sources for the study of medieval Iberia,  has received a two-year implementation grant from the Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program of the National Endowment for the Humanities to complete the mapping of PhiloBiblon from its almost forty-year-old relational database technology to the Wikibase technology that underlies Wikipedia, Wikidata, and FactGrid. The project will start on the first of July and, Dios mediante, will finish successfully by the end of June 2025.

The fundamental problem is to map the 422,000+ records of PhiloBiblon’s bibliographies with their complexly interrelated relational tables to the triplestore structure of Wikibase. A triplestore relates two Items by means of a Property. Thus a Work is linked to an Author by the Property “written by.”

We received an NEH Foundations grant for this project in 2021, as described in detail in PhiloBiblon: From Siloed Databases to Linked Open Data via Wikibase: Proof of Concept. Over the course of the last two years, the pilot project team, consisting of Charles Faulhaber (PI), Patricia García Sánchez Migallón and Almudena Izquierda (doctores por la UCM), Berkeley undergraduate Spanish and data science majors (Julieta Soto, Serena Bai, Tina Lin, Cassandra Calciano, Martín García Ángel), Max Ziff (data engineer), and Josep Formentí (user interface programmer), with the guidance of Olaf Simons, has analyzed the data structures of PhiloBiblon’s ten relational tables (using BETA for the test cases) and worked out the procedures needed to convert them into triplestore structures.

Quelle: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/3196