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World War 1 As Linked Open Data
Problems with geo location of historical events
Regarding the locations of wartime events, a key point is that places are temporal instances, that is, they can change over time. Current geographical datasets such as GeoNames are thus not directly applicable to a historical case like WW1, as the documents and events often…
Problems historians encounter with digital collections
To better understand the problems humanities researchers encounter in utilizing these collections, re- searchers conducted 21 semi-structured interviews with CU faculty and students [11]. The major user needs identified were better support for: 1) locating documents and data…