Marco Grasso
Master’s degree student of DHDK at the University of Bologna. Graduated in Humanities.
SissiLinked
A Linked Open Data project for connecting LAM resources related to the enchanting figure of empress Elisabeth of Austria.
Elisabeth of Austria
Empress Elisabeth (also known as Sissi 1837 – 1898) was one of the most famous royal women in European history. Celebrated for her great beauty and for her unique style, she was also one of the diplomats who oversaw the unification of Austria and Hungary, becoming a real heroine for the Hungarian people. She is still remembered today for her non conformist lifestyle, which has granted her the status of a modern feminism's precursor, and for the unfortunate events of her life.
The Project
SissiLinked is a project realized for the examination of the course of Knowledge Organization and Digital Methods in the Cultural Heritage Domain held by Francesca Tomasi within the Master Degree in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge of the University of Bologna.
The key concept of this project relies on the idea that it is possible to describe an historical person, in a full ranging prospective, starting from the connections between the person itself and other heterogenous entities, including real items coming from the different domains of libraries, archives and museums. In order to do that, we explored the possibilities offered by the technologies used in Semantic Web, such as vocabularies, ontologies, RDF and URIs. Therefore, the aim of the project is to model an organized linked open data environment that will connect concepts, items, people, places, events and, more generally, data about Elisabeth of Austria, in the most interoperable and semantically meaningful way possible.
Explore the Project
Our goal was to create an information cloud around the life events and the figure of Sissi that could be interpreted as a source of queryable and computable knowledge. Explore the project by following the ordered sections below: They will provide you a better understanding of the progressive stages that allowed us to generate our models from start to finish.
Items
We choose 10 items that describe events, concepts, people and places related to the figure of Elisabeth of Austria.
E/R Model
An Entity/Relation model that describes our domain and underlines the relationships that exist between our entities.
Metadata Standards
The analysis of our items that includes information about typology, providers, and metadata standards used.
Metadata Alignment
Alignment between different standards that are used to address information related to people, places, dates, and concepts.
Theoretical Model
A model able to describe all the chosen items and related concepts, answering almost to the question who? where? when? what?
Conceptual Model
Our own conceptual model created by reusing terms of our theoretical model and terms taken from existing models.
Data Description
The description of our data on the base of the previously realized Conceptual Model ordered in triples.
RDF
The description of our data in a RDF language, enriched with semantic connections, through URIs.
