Reassembling the republic of letters - A linked data approach

Jouni Tuominen; Eetu Mäkelä; Eero Hyvönen; Arno Bosse; Miranda Lewis; Howard Hotson

Reassembling the republic of letters - A linked data approach

Jouni Tuominen, Eetu Mäkelä, Eero Hyvönen, Arno Bosse, Miranda Lewis, Howard Hotson

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Abstract

Between 1500 and 1800, a revolution in postal communication allowed ordinary men and women to scatter letters across and beyond Europe. This exchange helped knit together what contemporaries called the respublica litteraria, or Republic of Letters, a knowledge-based civil society, crucial to that era's intellectual breakthroughs, and formative of many modern European values and institutions. To enable effective Digital Humanities research on the epistolary data distributed in different countries and collections, metadata about the letters have been aggregated, harmonised, and provided for the research community through the Early Modern Letters Online (EMLO) catalogue. This paper discusses the idea and benefits of using Linked Data as the basis for a potential future framework for EMLO, and presents our experiences with a first demonstrator implementation of such a system.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DHN 2018 : Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 3rd Conference
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 3rd Conference, Helsinki, Finland, March 7-9, 2018
Editors	Eetu Mäkelä, Mikko Tolonen, Jouni Tuominen
Publisher	CEUR
Pages	76-88
Number of pages	13
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2018
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries - University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Duration: 7 Mar 2018 → 9 Mar 2018 Conference number: 3

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Name	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Publisher	RWTH Aachen University
Volume	2084
ISSN (Print)	1613-0073

Conference

Conference	Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries
Abbreviated title	DHN
Country/Territory	Finland
City	Helsinki
Period	07/03/2018 → 09/03/2018

Keywords

Correspondence
Digital humanities
Early modern
Linked open data
Reconciliation
Semantic web

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Tuominen, J., Mäkelä, E., Hyvönen, E., Bosse, A., Lewis, M., & Hotson, H. (2018). Reassembling the republic of letters - A linked data approach. In E. Mäkelä, M. Tolonen, & J. Tuominen (Eds.), DHN 2018 : Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 3rd Conference: Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 3rd Conference, Helsinki, Finland, March 7-9, 2018 (pp. 76-88). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2084). CEUR. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2084/paper6.pdf

Tuominen, Jouni ; Mäkelä, Eetu ; Hyvönen, Eero et al. / Reassembling the republic of letters - A linked data approach. DHN 2018 : Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 3rd Conference: Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 3rd Conference, Helsinki, Finland, March 7-9, 2018. editor / Eetu Mäkelä ; Mikko Tolonen ; Jouni Tuominen. CEUR, 2018. pp. 76-88 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings).

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Tuominen, J, Mäkelä, E, Hyvönen, E, Bosse, A, Lewis, M & Hotson, H 2018, Reassembling the republic of letters - A linked data approach. in E Mäkelä, M Tolonen & J Tuominen (eds), DHN 2018 : Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 3rd Conference: Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 3rd Conference, Helsinki, Finland, March 7-9, 2018. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 2084, CEUR, pp. 76-88, Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries, Helsinki, Finland, 07/03/2018. <http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2084/paper6.pdf>

Reassembling the republic of letters - A linked data approach. / Tuominen, Jouni; Mäkelä, Eetu; Hyvönen, Eero et al.
DHN 2018 : Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 3rd Conference: Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 3rd Conference, Helsinki, Finland, March 7-9, 2018. ed. / Eetu Mäkelä; Mikko Tolonen; Jouni Tuominen. CEUR, 2018. p. 76-88 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2084).

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Tuominen J, Mäkelä E, Hyvönen E, Bosse A, Lewis M, Hotson H. Reassembling the republic of letters - A linked data approach. In Mäkelä E, Tolonen M, Tuominen J, editors, DHN 2018 : Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 3rd Conference: Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 3rd Conference, Helsinki, Finland, March 7-9, 2018. CEUR. 2018. p. 76-88. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings).

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