Linking and Sharing Data for the Humanities and Creative Arts: building the HuNI Virtual Laboratory

Humanities Networked Infrastructure

Dr Toby Burrows, HuNI Product Owner (University of W.A.)

Prof Deb Verhoeven, HuNI Project Director (Deakin University)

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Building a new national data service that is of cultural significance and widely accessible, now and in the future The HuNI project is:

•Integrating cultural data at a national level

•Making this new data service accessible to all

•Connecting to the Linked Data Cloud

•Building the foundations for future growth

HuNI is…

• Big – 275,000 entities and growing

• Multi-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary – 28 data sources

• Capable of answering complex questions quickly

Users of the HuNI lab app can…

• Discover and explore across the aggregated data

• Make connections and create “socially-linked” data

• Save and share their data and their findings

• Curate and import their own data

HuNI prototype

HuNI will change the nature of humanities research

• Working with data on a much larger scale

• Breaking down disciplinary boundaries around data

• Promoting data sharing

• Encouraging collaboration to enrich data

The amphibology of humanities data

• How would you describe this music?

• What’s Australian about this song?

Project wiki

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HuNI website

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HuNI lab prototype

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* Testers

wanted

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