Data Connection

Finally, we managed to represent our data description through an RDF statement that we decided to serialize through Turtle.
We decided to describe two entities involved in our project which represent a very peculiar and maybe not very deepened aspect of the Festival of Woodstock: the political activism and the anti-Vietnam War protests that took place in the “3 days of peace and music” event.
From this point of view, the two entities involved are the person Abbie Hoffman and the concept the Vietnam War Protest.


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URIs and Connections

As RDF identifies resources through URIs, we wrote URIs for our two entities as if they belonged to a real LOD website:

  • https://woodslod.github.io/woodsLOD/person/abbie_hoffman
  • https://woodslod.github.io/woodsLOD/concept/vietnam_war_protest

We also decided to create more URIs in order to add internal connections among our other entities:

  • https://woodslod.github.io/woodsLOD/person/eddie_kramer
  • https://woodslod.github.io/woodsLOD/date/festival
  • https://woodslod.github.io/woodsLOD/date/1969
  • https://woodslod.github.io/woodsLOD/concept/hippie_movement
  • https://woodslod.github.io/woodsLOD/event/Woodstock

For what concerns external connections, we managed to create a variety of links:

  • Term lists and authority control resources able to uniquely identify in the correct form the entities involved. In doing this we mainly used the property defined by OWL owl:sameAs and the authority control by VIAF. Wherever it was impossible to use this form we directly wrote the connected resource with its controlled form, as it happened for the location identification through the use of GeoNames.
  • Other resources already present in other online repositories, mainly dbpedia. We defined semantic associations related to relations (eg. core:notablyAssociatedWith dbr:Counterculture_of_the_1960s for Abbie Hoffman), people and places (eg. foaf:know <person/eddie_kramer> for Abbie Hoffman), hierarchical connections (eg. skos:broader dbc:Political_theories for Vietnam War Protest), partitive connection (eg. foaf:member dbc:Chicago_Seven for Abbie Hoffman).
  • Other resources identified by URL already present in the web, such as prov:PrimarySource https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-protests for Vietnam War Protest and eac-cpf:biogHist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbie_Hoffman for Abbie Hoffman.