| Dear members of the Geovistory community, This is our first Geovistory newsletter. You receive it because you are either part of the LOD4HSS project or because you have once created a Geovistory Toolbox account. We plan to send three to four newsletters a year. |
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The first few months of the year 2023 were eventful for Geovistory, especially with the launch of the LOD4HSS project, co-funded by swissuniversities, which has the goal of promoting and developing the Geovistory environment and community. In addition, we have many exciting news: |
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Invitation to our Geovistory Day 2023 |
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We are pleased to invite you to the Geovistory Day 2023, entitled LOD in dialogue, on November 15, at the University of Bern. This event, organized by the Geovistory team together with the University of Bern, will present ongoing projects in Geovistory, feature hands-on workshops and showcase different opportunities of LOD for research in the Humanities. At the same time, the event will serve as a mid-term meeting of the LOD4HSS project. This event is hybrid and open to everyone. Save the date. Registration and zoom link will follow. The program will be announced soon. |
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From Geovistory’s development kitchen |
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- We improved the management & consistency of Geographical Places. It is now ‘kinds’, managed by the Geovistory team, that are used to specify the identity of Geographical Places, instead of types. When creating new places, you can choose from a fixed list of kinds. In order to allow you to continue classifying places according to your own controlled vocabulary, the Classification class has been added. You can find more information in the release note.
- In June, ABES linked Geovistory Identifiers with its authority file idRef. This allows users of idRef to retrieve information from Geovistory and jump from idRef search directly onto entity pages in Geovistory public. See for example here Johannes Kepler.
- In May 2023, Geovistory underwent a technological transformation: Apache Kafka was implemented to enhance the infrastructure with a powerful component that enables real-time data processing, streaming, and standardized communication between different services. Although the benefits may not be immediately apparent from an external perspective, this upgrade provides us with significant advantages in terms of scaling data volumes and the overall IT architecture.
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As projects and our community is growing, we want to offer new spaces to accommodate you! - A new Community Page has just been published on the Geovistory website! On it, newcomers will find all the information needed to join the Geovistory community.
- We have also been busy participating in different events, such as:
- Journées ABES (May 23-24) - Les Journées Abes - abes.fr, where we presented the interlinkage between Geovistory Identifiers and the French authority file system idRef, developed by ABES.
- Geovistory public session at LARHRA in Lyon (June 29), where we discussed with researchers the different use-cases of Geovistory.
- DH 2023 in Graz (July 10-14) - https://dh2023.adho.org/, where we present a poster on the Geovistory environment.
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We wish you all a lovely summer The Geovistory Team |
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