Online/Virtual Event

Tuesday, October 5th 2021 from 4:00pm to 5:00pm

See a recording of this webinar here.

Linking Lost Jazz Shrines (LLJS) is an ongoing collaboration between the Weeksville Heritage Center and the Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute to investigate the application of linked open data technologies to the Weeksville Lost Jazz Shrines of Brooklyn (WLJSB) oral history collection. This rich collection documents Central Brooklyn’s cultural legacy of jazz history between the 1930s and 1960s. The primary aim of the project is to make the WLJSB archival collection more discoverable and accessible to researchers and the general public alike. The project also enriches and expands the existing network of jazz musicians developed by the Linked Jazz Project with an infusion of influential, yet lesser-known artists and the venues where they performed. This presentation discussed the workflows, Sélavy tool development, data modeling, and ethical decision-making involved in the transformation of textual archival documents into linked data.

Find more information about the grant at the Equity in Action website.