we adopt two points of view. 1) A national contributor point of view who wants to give visibility to his contributions 2) A researchers point of view, of any countries, who is looking for specific tools or data of any topics. Consequently, this proposal wants to give to the researchers some means to find relevant information

1. VCC3
Proposal
Displaying and Finding
Jean-Luc Minel (MoDyCo, Univ. Paris Ouest-La Défense & TGE Adonis)
In collaboration with Sophie David, Shadia Kilouchi, Nicolas Larrousse,
Stéphane Pouyllau (TGE Adonis) and Laurent Capelli (CCSD)
22-23 May 2013

2. “Improve research opportunities and outcomes through
linking distributed digital source materials of many kinds”
http://www.dariah.eu/
For contributors
To give visibility to their contributions
For researchers
To give them tools to find relevant information
Objectives
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3. Who are experts on Open Archive?
Who offers a PID service?
Who works on Alexandrian pottery, 2nd century B.C.?
What are the available collections on archeology?
What is the procedure to obtain the DSA?
What are the recommended formats for images?
What are the Dutch contributions?
Is Jean-Luc Minel involved in Dariah?
Is the INA (Institut national de l’audiovisuel) involved in
Dariah?
Which European projects are related to Dariah?
etc.
What could be relevant questions?
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4. To deal with decentralized data
Each contributor is responsible for the description of his
contribution
Each country is responsible for gathering and displaying
the contributions
To use standard tools
To use languages of the Semantic Web (RDF, SPARQL)
To exploit Linked Open Data possibilities
To use existing data from other repositories
Low cost and time investment
Principles
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5. Workflow
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6. Proof of concept
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7. Some details
Example of RDFa Annotations
<!-- la description du contenu de la contribution -->
<meta property="dc:subject" content="type d'offre : Accès" />
<meta property="dc:subject" content="DARIAH" />
<meta property="dc:subject" content="Linguistique" />
<meta property="dc:subject" content="Histoire" />
<meta property="dc:subject" content="VCC3" />
<meta property="dc:subject" content="Corpus journalistique,
Presse Régionale, PQR, XML - TEI P5, TEI P5, Est Républicain,
Productivité" />
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Name of the
VCC Type of offerDiscipline Discipline

8. Some rough details
SPARQL Query
PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
PREFIX dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/>
PREFIX dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>
PREFIX skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#>
select DISTINCT ?title ?name ?subject
{?x rdfs:type <http://www.rechercheisidore.fr/class/Source> .
?x skos:altLabel "DARIAH FR" .
?uri ?p ?x.
?uri dcterms:title ?title .
?uri dcterms:creator ?contact .
?contact foaf:name ?name .
?uri dc:subject ?subject .
?uri dc:subject "VCC3"@fr.
}
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9. Answering relevant questions with a smarter HCI
SPARQL Query http://sandbox-ist.tge-adonis.fr/dariah-fr/demo/
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10. Answering relevant questions
PID assigned by
ISIDORE if necessary
Automatic enrichments
using thesaurus and skos
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11. A very smart HCI
(http://www.rechercheisidore.fr/search/?source=10670/2.8uuv54)
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12. Example with VIAF
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/presentations/hickey/20110302-
EMEARC.pdf
To benefit from Linked Data
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13. To benefit from Linked Data
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14. To benefit from Linked Data
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15. To benefit from Linked Data
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16. geonames.org
creativecommons.org
dbpedia.org
lexvo.org 16

17. <meta property=‘dc:coverage’ content=‘http://dbpedia.org/page/France’ />
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18. Some milestones
How long to make annotations using RDFA ?
Between 15 or 30 mn by contributions (depending on who
make it and the accuracy of the metadata)
How long to develop a crawler ?
No need to develop a crawler. ISIDORE exists and is
available (French contribution in Dariah). Of course, it is
possible to use another crawler.
How long to build a triplestore?
Few hours using a private or public data center. It is not
required that each country builds a Tstore.
How long to develop simple HCI ?
One day by an agile digital humanist. Of course, HCI can be
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19. Flexibility and Responsibility/Best practices
Dariah.eu can display all contributions on its website
AND
All partners can display and expand all their contributions
with their own choices (VIAF, IDREF, Geonames, Pactols,
etc.) and with their own interfaces
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As all partners describe and expand their contributions,
they are responsible for their visibility... which is also a best
practice
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20. Some issues
Contributions in English
“Standardisation” of the description of the contributions
(proposition of a template)
Choice of vocabularies
Dcterms, foaf, skos, bibo
Taxonomies, ontologies and thesauri
Ex.: NeDiMAH ontology, Rameau, Geonames, etc.
Existing, simple and but not perfect!
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21. Some issues
Linked Data
How to exploit data from other triplestores?
Which ones ?
Social Network?
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22. In a nutshell
Each partner manages its contributions and displays
them on a webpage of a website
Each webpage is annotated with RDFa, following some
guidelines (using common tags and vocabularies)
Dariah.eu (and/or Dariah.Anycountry) harvests these
websites regularly and puts all the harvested data in a
triplestore
Dariah.eu and/or Dariah.Anycountry offer simple tools
to peruse all these data
Anyone can search in the triplestore using Sparql
queries
Visibility, simplicity, interoperability
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23. Huma-Num
Very Large Facility for the Digital Humanities
Produced by