Oxford Digital Humanities Masterclass 2017

Martin Poulter gave a masterclass at the Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School (DHOxSS) on 6th July 2017. Sixty people signed up. The session was filmed and will be released online under a CC-By licence.

Online handout

Short link for this page: tinyurl.com/oxdhwiki

Scope of Wikidata

• Wikiproject sum of all paintings
• WikiProject Cultural heritage
• Initiative for Open Citations / Wikiproject Source Metadata
• List of all Wikidata properties plus new property proposals being discussed
• Blog post: Wikidata: the new hub for cultural heritage

Querying Wikidata

• Self-portraits of women
• Lots of art-related queries by Jane Darnell
• Blog post: Probing Parliament(s) with Wikidata
• Blog post: Historical intellectual connections

Do it yourself

• Wikidata query service: examples
• Wikidata graph builder
• Query by a participant: Paintings with musical instruments from Spain or related to Spain by Ines M. Thanks for sharing, Ines!

Wikidata queries with data shared from Oxford projects

• Electronic Enlightenment (identifiers)
• Early Modern Letters Online (identifiers)
• Atlas of Hillforts (names, identifiers, locations, types)
• Oxford Research Archive (theses; bibliographic data with links to open access version)

Book transcription

• Wikidata Scholar at the National Library of Wales: data visualisations
• Our ongoing transcription of Plomer's "A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667" Please join in and fix OCR errors!

Feedback

• Storify of tweets from the session