Comments on: Digital history http://london2010.thatcamp.org/2010/07/05/digital-history/ Just another THATCamp site Fri, 17 Jan 2020 04:47:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: Richard Light http://london2010.thatcamp.org/2010/07/05/digital-history/#comment-50 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:00:34 +0000 http://thatcamplondon.org/?p=201#comment-50 I think one possible strategy is to use the Linked Data approach to publish, and thereby disseminte, historical data. For example, one project I have been involved with will be transcribing registers of births etc. as a TEI resource. We intend to encode each registered event so that it could be expressed as Linked Data RDF or a Topic Map fragment. These records are interesting at the micro level, as evidence of the history of individuals, and at the macro level as the raw data for population studies.

It might be worth seeing to what extent you can extract useful historical assertions from the sources offered to THATCamp. (Sorry I can’t be there, BTW.)

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