A linked data exercise (part 1)
I want to learn about linked data, ideally for use with online texts and library data, but that’s a big and complicated task and it makes sense to start with something smaller and better defined. So having an interest in family history I thought I’d try with data from 18th century West Country parish registers. Many of these were transcribed in the 19th century in a series published by Phillimore and are now available as public domain scans on archive.org. Marriages, only, unfortunately, which limits what you can do with them, but still more than enough to get started. Continue Reading »