Explainers
A series of explainer videos introducing the technical building blocks of the digital humanities (TEI, RDF, …), one element per video. Each video includes a full readable transcript.
▶ 2 videosAI / experimentalIntroduction to SPARQL
A beginner-friendly introduction to SPARQL — querying RDF graphs with triple patterns (SELECT … WHERE and ?variables), joining patterns to narrow results, FILTER / OPTIONAL / ordering, results as tables, and trying queries on public endpoints (Wikidata Query Service). An experimental, independently-composed video referencing open CC-licensed materials.
▶ 2 videosAI / experimentalIntroduction to RDF and Linked Data
A beginner-friendly introduction to RDF — representing data as subject–predicate–object triples — and Linked Data / LOD. An experimental, independently-composed video referencing open CC-licensed materials.
▶ 2 videosAI / experimentalIntroduction to TEI and XML
A beginner-friendly introduction to TEI, the international standard for encoding humanities texts, and the XML it builds on. An experimental, independently-composed video referencing open CC-licensed materials.