| Transformation and Growth of The Treasury of Lives Encyclopedia: Creating Access to the People and Places of Tibet, Inner Asia and the Himalayan Region
Expansion and development of an online resource
that documents the history, people, and places of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the
Himalayan region. The project would
expand the technical infrastructure of the current resource to include linked
open data and would expand content by adding new biographies and geographic
data.
The Treasury of Lives, an
online encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia and the Himalayan Region, will
implement a major expansion of encyclopedia content and transition from
traditional relational database tables to a Resource Description Framework
(RDF) knowledge graph capable of supporting semantic queries. The Treasury of
Lives will add 100 new biographies of significant twentieth century Tibetan
figures and 100 geographic place description entries with dynamic mapping, as
well as related family and social roles content, to the actively growing
resource. This content development will coincide with the development of a data
model and ontology for people and places of Tibet, all in preparation for the
transition to a triple-store database and website redevelopment that will fully
implement the principles of Linked Open Data (LOD).
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Project fields:
Area Studies; East Asian Studies; Nonwestern Religion
Program:
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Division:
Preservation and Access
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Totals:
$349,475 (approved)
$349,475 (awarded)
Grant period:
6/1/2020 – 6/30/2023
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