Muruca: Linked data in Arts & Humanities.

Muruca: Digital Humanities, Beers and the Semantic Web
COST A32 Final Conference, Munich, 28 Sep - 2 Oct 2010

Michele Barbera, Christian Morbidoni This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.5 Italy
<barbera@netseven.it>, <morbidoni@netseven.it>

From Beers...
2002

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oh yes you mean To Beers!
Linked Data, that’s Today
so cool!

To day ’s Specialties
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Muruca’s philosophy & components

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So me (o ld) examples: DLs bu
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Model, data, metadata, editorial policies, publication &
interoperability
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User Interfaces, Generic & Tabbed

Semantic Annotation Images & Text W!

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Model, data, metadata, editorial policies, publication &
interoperability
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User Interfaces, Generic & Tabbed

Semantic Annotation Images & Text W!

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Plans for the future

Announcements!

To day ’s big deals
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Tab
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UI!

Tab
b ed ~~~~
UI!

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so are carefully marked-up texts

peer review and quality of data are important things

except the notion of “quality” changes over time and
space and culture and...

myth of Theuth

“ O re, questa conoscenza (mathema) renderà gli
egiziani più sapienti e più dotati di memoria: infatti
ho scoperto un pharmakon per la sapienza e la
memoria. - E il re rispose: - Espertissimo
(technikotate) Theuth, una cosa è esser capaci di
mettere al mondo quanto concerne una techne,
un'altra saper giudicare quale sarà l'utilità e il
danno che comporterà agli utenti; e ora tu, padre
“
delle lettere, hai attribuito loro per benevolenza il
contrario del loro vero effetto. Infatti esse
produrranno dimenticanza (lethe) nelle anime di
chi impara

Plato, Phaedrus

My boss allowed me to
do it* in my spare time...

* the Web!

Researchers are not any more only in the academia*

* See also recent speeches of EU Commissioner M. Quinn and Europe 2020 strategy

research is not done anymore only here

if we want to advance human knowledge (our mission?)

keep data hidden in our hard disks

in our fancy websites with TEI-aware, user-
daptive, context-sensitive, whatever search
engines

people (and the next generations) to freely re-use, re-
think, re-mix the knowledge we encoded into machines

Internet users

in the world:
1.668.870.408
in Europe:
402.380.474 (~50%)

average growth
from 2000 to 2009:
362.3%

so we can’t hide data because

data is less valuable when it’s isolated

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someone understood this and...

in the nineties he built the Web

but it didn’t work like he imagined

it became a Web of Documents meant for Human
consumption (only)

machines had no way of understading

that two documents talk about the same “thing”

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?
semantics is hidden, only humans (and not all of them)
can extract it from documents

<open access,
e-publishing>
cites
<internet,
philosophy>

we use very simple ways (don’t forget they are stupid) of
telling them what we are talking about

this is what the Semantic Web (and Linked Data, and
the Web of Data) is all about.

Hidden semantics, no access to
Web of Documents Web 1.0 data

Hidden semantics, partial access to
Social Web Web 2.0 data,1-to-1 Interoperability

Explicit semantics, full access to
Web of Data Web 3.0 data, global Interoperability

Different Models of Collaboration

We write, We Web 1.0 Stendhal, Goethe, Discovery
publish

We publish, Web 2.0 Hypernietzsche
you write

You write, you
publish, we mix Web 3.0 Linked Open Data

to make the Web a huge, distributed database, on
which we can build applications on top*

* You’re right, it’s a bit more than that!

think about electronic editions

In this days we heard several varitions of:
“have the data in one place, build several different
interfaces on top”

linked data and the semantic web makes one more step

data in one place, build several
different interfaces on top

Web 3.0

data in many connected places,
let other people (we might even
don’t know)
mix with their own data,
build interfaces on top

after TBL call for “Raw data now!” on TED in 2009
there has been a huge growth of LOD

Municipalities of San Francisco, Toronto, London,
Zaragoza

today we have more than 15 billions triples*

* Atomic “bits of information” in the semantic web.

to let other people use our data in new an unanticipated
ways

to let them do research, develop applications and
mash-ups, play, do business...

just a couple of examples

data.gov.uk http://www.where-can-i-live.com/londonproperty

+
geonames.org http://www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/

freebase.com http://www.we-love-the.net/FreeInﬂuencer/

the web is becoming a huge distributed
global database with a lot of different ways
(Interfaces, applications ...) to access it

yes we can!*

* with Muruca

Muruca

Open Source Semantic Web Open Access

Muruca
Set of tools (not an out-of-the box product) to build
research platforms and digital libraries in the Linked
Data Cloud

Muruca
Led by Net7 with University of Ancona and other
contributors

Why?
There are many small (or tiny) institutions who have
masterpiecies and no money/staff/know-how to put
them on the Semantic Web.

Muruca
‣Talia + UI Widgets + SwickyNotes
‣IIPImage + FlexIP
‣Linked Data recommender & search
(soon)

<ol>
<li>Discovery</li>
<li>Doni & Burchardt & Orlando Furioso</li>
</ol>

islamicart.muruca.org
islamicart.muruca.org/boxView

Ontologies:
vocabularies for your domain
Source Person

sub class of sub class of sub class of
sub class of
sub class of
Artistic Medium Manuscript Book Artist

Caliph
sub class of

sub class of

Mosaic
Fresco

Ontologies:
Source Person

sub class of
sub class of

Caliph
sub class of
type type
type
sub class of

Mosaic Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri
Fresco

type Prophet Muhammad

San Petronio
Fresco

Ontologies:
Source Person

sub class of
sub class of

Caliph
sub class of
type type
type
sub class of

Mosaic Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri
Fresco

type Prophet Muhammad
has author

San Petronio
Fresco depicts

<source>

<attribute>
<predicate>type</predicate>
<value>TaliaSource</value>
</attribute>

<attribute>

<predicate>uri</predicate>

<value>transcr_page_2_Zad_al-ma_ad</value>

</attribute>

<attribute>

<predicate>rdfs:label</predicate>

<value>Transcription of Page 2 of Zād al-maʽād@en</value>

</attribute>

<attribute>

<predicate>dcns:creator</predicate>

<value>Michele Barbera</value>

</attribute>

<attribute>

<predicate>dcns:creator</predicate>

<value>Chriastian Morbidoni</value>

</attribute>

<attribute>

<predicate>rdf:type</predicate>

<object>demo:Transcription</object>

</attribute>

<attribute>

<predicate>dcns:description</predicate>

<value>This is a linear transcription of page 2 of Page 2 of Zād al-maʽād@en</value>

</attribute>
<file>Imge34554.tiff</file>
<file>TextAAA.xml</file>
</source>

4 Design UI

(Tabbed & Generic come for free, you can use them as starting
points)

5 Make sure its interoperable

(“Link” to LinkedData, OAI-PMH, SEO)

Fragments and Annotations:
a glance at the data model
Source (Resource)
Buraq

text text text text text text

Source (Resource)
Buraq
Note


Source (Resource)
Buraq
Note

Note

Source (Resource)
Buraq
Note

Note

Note

Source (Resource)
Buraq
Note

text text text text text text Author: Bob Smith, Date: 10/08/2010
Textual comment: some more information about this
text text text text text text fragment of text
Note
Structured Part (Statements)

Note
Buraq.txt/87874 has variant
Buraq.txt/87874 genetic phen
Buraq2.txt/78569
Addition
Buraq.jpg/2134 is explained by Buraq.txt/87874

Note

Source (Resource)
Buraq
Note

text text text text text text Author: Bob Smith, Date: 10/08/2010
Textual comment: some more information about this
text text text text text text fragment of text
Note
Structured Part (Statements)

Note
Buraq.txt/87874 has variant
Buraq.txt/87874 genetic phen
Buraq2.txt/78569
Addition
Buraq.jpg/2134 is explained by Buraq.txt/87874

Note

Ontologies

The vision:
a collaborative knowledge graph
Prophet
Muhammad

Note
Buraq
Note
Note

Mecca
is part of mentions
is part of

mentions
Buraq.jpg/2134
is related to
Buraq.txt/87874

The vision:
Prophet
Muhammad

Note
Buraq
Note
Note

Mecca
is part of mentions
is part of

mentions
Buraq.jpg/2134
is related to
Buraq.txt/87874

Note

Note

The vision:
Prophet
Muhammad

Note
Buraq
Note
Note

Mecca
is part of mentions
is part of

mentions
Buraq.jpg/2134
is related to
Buraq.txt/87874

reproduced comments on

An artist A Book

Note

Note

The vision:
Prophet
Muhammad

Note
Buraq
Note
Note

Mecca
is part of mentions
is part of

mentions
Buraq.jpg/2134
is related to
Buraq.txt/87874


An artist A Book

Note

Note

Note Note

Note

The vision:
Prophet
Muhammad

Note
Buraq
Note
Note

Mecca
is part of mentions
is part of

mentions
Buraq.jpg/2134
is related to
Buraq.txt/87874
A scholar
is located in
wrote

An artist A Book
is a revision of
An other Book
Note

Note

Note Note

Note

The vision:
Prophet
Muhammad

Note
Buraq
Note
Note

Mecca
is part of mentions
is part of

mentions
Buraq.jpg/2134
is related to
Buraq.txt/87874
A scholar
is located in
wrote

An artist A Book
is a revision of
An other Book
Note

Note

Note Editorial Policy (peer review?) Note

Note

Publish on the Web

SEMLIB
Semantic Web Tools for Digital Libraries

swickynotes on the web
&
Linked Data Recommender

EU-FP7
2011-2013
Net7, Uni Ancona, Deri Gallway, Knowledgehives, IN2, Liberologico

2 Ways
TO SUPPORT MURUCA

Net7 Do-it-yourself
hire us or involve us in and give back to the
EU/National projects community

WE ARE
HIRING
SEMANTIC WEB WIZARD, HTML5 / CSS /
JAVASCRIPT DEVELOPER,ANDROID/IPHONE GURU.

Contact Michele and Christian (and tell your talented friends plz!)

Michele Barbera, Christian Morbidoni
<barbera@netseven.it>, <morbidoni@netseven.it>

Thank you for your attention!

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<Credits />
Authors
Michele Barbera, <barbera@netseven.it>
Christian Morbidoni, <morbidoni@netseven.it>

Photos
Flickr / Tim Berners-Lee / Silvio Tanaka
Flickr / Silo Antelope / ken mcown
Flickr / The Medium Is The Massage (2) / Danielweiresq
Flickr / Ballet Jody Blevins 2 / Patrick McDonald

Thanks
Danilo Giacomi, Francesca di Donato, Riccardo Giomi,
Simone Fonda, Giulio Andreini, Luca De Santis

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