Dutch Book Trade 1660-1750: using the STCN to gain insight in publishers’ strategies
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The document summarizes research by the e-Humanities Group on linking the Short Title Catalogue Netherlands (STCN) as Linked Open Data. Key points discussed include: 1) Connecting the STCN to existing datasets like GeoNames and Picarta to infer related topics between publications and correlate publishing decisions to historical events. 2) Converting STCN data into RDF format including over 139,000 publications, authors, printers, and enriched concepts from sources like DBpedia and linking to standards. 3) Providing a web service called humR for conducting "distant reading" research using the STCN data, which allows formulating and testing hypotheses about publications and authors over time.
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Dutch Book Trade 1660-1750: using the STCN to gain insight in publishers’ strategies
- 1. e-Humanities Group Research Meeting: STCN 2013/10/10 Wouter Beek Albert Meroño Peñuela Rinke Hoekstra Fernie Maas Inger Leemans
- 2. ‘OPENING’ THE STCN LINKING THE STCN
- 3. Open data
- 5. Linked Open Data • Connect to existing datasets • Connect to services • Queries/inferences run across datasets – The Picarta topic hierarchy allows us to infer that certain publications cover related topics. – GeoNames gives the latitude of publishing houses, allowing publishing decisions to be correlated to historical events. – Lexvo / ISO standards allow translations to be traced via related languages (e.g. language families). • Easy to create mashups / new applications.
- 7. Taking the STCN to the Semantic Web • 139.817 publications (4M facts) • 23.543 authors (120K facts) • 9.959 printers (55K facts) • 37K enriched concepts (DBpedia, Yago, Heidelberg Diglit, …) • 105 topics (1K facts) • Relate to international standards (GGC/OCLC/ISO/RFC/IANA) • Making the schema explicit (vocabulary)
- 8. RDF files Domain-independent data conversions fully automated Relational DB Domain-dependent data conversions domain knowledge needed domain knowledge Simple RDF Link to external sources (linksets) domain knowledge needed XML files depends on structure domain knowledge Text files ambiguous Fixing bad data origin inconsistencies & inaccuracies Connect to services (e.g. query interface, maps) high level of reuse
- 9. FROM THE LIBRARY TO THE LAB
- 11. “How many publications by Arminius?”
- 12. “How many publications by Gomarus?”
- 13. What happens to the average publication format after 1619? Measured in terms of the number of folds: • Works by Arminius: 5.6 5.7 • Works by Gomarius: 6.8 4.9 Distant reading!
- 14. Methodological implications From searching for resources (librarian) to validating/refuting hypotheses (scientist)
- 15. humanities + R (statistics processing software) A WEB SERVICE FOR RESEARCH INVOLVING DISTANT READING humR
- 19. Open issues 0: institutional hurdles • The products of publicly funded research should be publicly available (papers&datasets). – Not everybody makes their data publicly available. • Distant reading research is often restricted by the user interace.
- 20. Open issues 1: meaning A large percentage of the data has no/unknown meaning: • “before 1808” • “This book was published between the Big Bang and 1808.” Context-dependent: • “The first dinosaur walked the earth before 300M years BC.” • “Einstein came up with the idea of general relativity before 1937.” Fuzzyness: • “James Joyce’s Ulysses was published before 1925.”
- 21. Open issues 2: statistics • Which query results are statistically relevant? • How to detect whether a statistically significant difference reflects reality and not the way in which the dataset was constructed?