Teaching Linked Open Data using Bibliographic Metadata

Abstract

This paper describes LD4DH, the 'Linked Data for Digital Humanities: Publishing, Querying, and Linking on the Semantic Web' workshop at the Digital Humanities Oxford Summer School. It includes a description of the general structure of the workshop, how it has changed over the course of the last seven years, between 2015 and 2021, and evaluates the differences between in-person delivery in 2018–2019 and the online mode in 2020–2021. Discussion is centred on the description of the data as well as the illustration of the processes, methods, and software used throughout the workshop. The paper concludes with a summary of participant evaluation, and reflects on the opportunities and challenges of teaching Linked Open Data to a mixed cohort of predominantly Humanities researchers and professionals from the cultural heritage sector.

Keywords

• linked open data
• bibliographic metadata
• pedagogy
• participant evaluations