Sessions at Web Directions South 2011 about History and Semantic Web

Thursday 13th October 2011

• Bringing History Alive: Telling stories with Linked Data and open source tools

  by David Peterson and Adam Bell

  The Australian War Memorial is connecting and enriching online archives and collections toward building a platform for telling history. Through Drupal 7 and Linked Data, the Memorial intends to develop tools that designers, researchers and historians can use to help find new ways of building historical narratives.

  During this session we will demonstrate some early prototypes and experiments, key uses of Linked Data, practical publishing tools and discuss how this work is unfolding inside one of Australia’s major collecting institutions.

  • Drupal
  • History
  • Linked Open Data
  • Semantic Web
  • Storytelling

  At 2:40pm to 3:30pm, Thursday 13th October

  In W3C South Track, Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre

  Coverage slide deck audio clip