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Data for the Digital Historian: The Sloane Lab Experience [Video Lecture]
In this lecture, taught as part of the course “Concepts and Context of Digital History” at TU Darmstadt, Dr Daniele Metilli, Research Fellow at the Sloane Lab, introduces students to the use of data as a source for historical research, looking at different kinds of data and forms of scholarship that Digital Humanities (DH) projects…
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The Sloane Lab Knowledge Base in a nutshell
Writes Dr. Daniele Metilli, Research Fellow in Advanced Data Architectures. The Sloane Lab technical team has recently developed a prototype of the Sloane Lab knowledge base. The knowledge base aims to unify the dispersed data of the Sloane collection and it can be seen as the combination of a data model, which describes the main…
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Towards a Network Analysis of Hans Sloane’s Collection: A Preliminary Study
Daniele Metilli (they/them) is a Research Fellow in Advanced Data Architectures for Digital Humanities at UCL Department of Information Studies. In the Sloane Lab project, they are working to manage the collected knowledge, model it through Semantic Web technologies, and publish it as Linked Data for further exploration and reuse. On the 14th of September…
