Comments on: History Beyond the Facts

By: Aditi Muralidharan

Aditi Muralidharan — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 00:28:09 +0000

Fascinating! I Certainly want to participate.

There a already a few of other projects in this space, including one I’m becoming involved with: a proto-linked-data set of relationships of different kinds between authors, painters, and other kinds of artists who lived at the Yaddo in the 19th Century.

By: George Oates

George Oates — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:46:40 +0000

I’d be really curious to see if it was possible to build some sort of map of the evolution of library subject headings over time.

For each subject heading, find the publish dates of the editions published with that heading, and then slap them all on some sort of timeline.

By: Supriya Wronkiewicz

Supriya Wronkiewicz — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 05:19:53 +0000

This sounds like an interesting session. I’m considering going back for a PhD at some point so it would be interesting to see what comes from such a discussion.

By: Kathy Harris

Kathy Harris — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:31:03 +0000

This sounds like a great session. Though I do literary history, it’s still difficult to graphically represent all of the data to my students. We use a timeline (SIMILE) to do so but if there’s something better, I’m all for it.

By: Raymond Yee

Raymond Yee — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:52:08 +0000

I’d be interested in participating in Ryan’s proposed session. I’ve been exploring the idea of building software to help people learn about music and art history by using Freebase and the Wikipedia as a scaffold of “facts” and basic background materials. Art and music history have particular demands, but there should be some overlap with the questions that Ryan talks about here.