EHRI Webinar | 27 November 2024 | 3:00 PM CET | On Zoom

On 27 November, Herminio García González, a data integration specialist at Kazerne Dossin, and Mike Bryant, a software developer at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies presented a webinar about the EHRI Knowledge Graph (KG).

The Holocaust as a subject of scholarly investigation is perhaps uniquely characterised by the fragmentation and wide dispersal of source material. In conducting broad, trans-national studies of the subject, researchers must learn to navigate a complex landscape of collections across numerous holding institutions, often with a diverse mix of standards and practices. The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) sought to mitigate this problem with the launch of the EHRI Portal in 2015, a single platform which integrates and contextualises Holocaust-relevant archival descriptions from all over the world in a standardised manner.

Since its inception, however, the technologies underpinning the Semantic Web and Linked Open Data (LOD) ecosystems have continued their steady advancement, presenting new possibilities for standardising, linking, and navigating between online platforms, and these technologies are gradually being adopted. In the archival field, the International Council on Archives (ICA) released earlier this year a new conceptual model named Records in Contexts (RiC), based on LOD technologies, which seeks to build-on and advance their existing standards for the description of archival materials.

In an effort to adopt these new advancements and enable more LOD innovation within the EHRI community, the speakers sought to align the information in the EHRI Portal with the new Records in Contents model, leading to the creation of the EHRI Knowledge Graph (KG). In this talk, the presenters introduced the audience to LOD technologies and how RiC implements them. After this introduction, the EHRI-KG was presented, with a special focus on the benefits that it can bring to the whole community and which new use cases it enables.

Biographies:

Herminio García González is a data integration specialist at Kazerne Dossin. He holds a BSc in Software Engineering and a MSc in Web Engineering from the University of Oviedo. In 2021 he received his PhD from the University of Oviedo. He has actively participated in the EHRI project since 2021 where he has led the data integration lab while at the same time he explores new innovative solutions that can solve the challenges that cultural heritage institutions face. His research interests are web semantics, data integration, data validation and digital humanities.

Mike Bryant is a software developer at NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide studies in Amsterdam, where he works on the EHRI Portal and other online platforms. Mike studied History and Politics at Lancaster University, and later received an MA in Digital Asset Management from King’s College London. Based in the UK, he has been involved with the Digital Humanities since 2010.

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Topic: EHRI Webinar
Time: Nov 27, 2024 03:00 PM Prague Bratislava

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