Battle without FAIR and easy data in digital humanities: An empirical research on the challenges of open data and APIs for the james cook dynamic journal

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Abstract

© Springer International Publishing AG 2017.There are theoretical and technical challenges for Digital Humanities scholars to develop and use Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Whilst data owning culture in our institutional settings seems to hinder truly interdisciplinary research, the emergence of Linked Open Data implies the increasing opportunities of distributed-data research. This article is based on an API application to address those issues in the context of Open Data. James Cook Dynamic Journal was created to assist users to study the Cook’s journal, integrating various sets of APIs which facilitate full-text search, Named Entity Recognition, and map views. The development revealed some critical issues of data federation and processing automation. The standardization of data structure and the development of user-friendly GUI tools would significantly increase the value of APIs. Taking recent initiatives into account, the paper also proposes “Easy Data” to liberate Open Data for a wider spectrum of users outside the programmer community.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMetadata and Semantic Research - 11th International Conference, MTSR 2017, Proceedings
EditorsD. Koutsomiha, E. Garoufallou, R. Siatri, S. Virkus
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages315-326
ISBN (Print)9783319708621
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event11th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research, MTSR 2017 - Tallinn, Estonia
Duration: 28 Nov 20171 Dec 2017

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
ISSN (Print)1865-0929

Conference

Conference11th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research, MTSR 2017
Country/TerritoryEstonia
CityTallinn
Period28/11/171/12/17

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