Welcome to the Tolkien Linked Open Data Project
We are working on referencing, indexing, and linking between Tolkien-related texts, people, places, and events in both the primary and secondary world across online projects, scholarly works, archives, media, and more.
Our aim is to achieve greater connectivity between projects and greater accessibility to data to facilitate collaboration with Tolkien studies in new and more powerful ways.
Who are we?
Our team includes people from the Digital Tolkien Project, the Tolkien Gateway, the Tolkien Collector’s Guide as well as individual scholars, librarians, archivists, and enthusiasts.
If you have Tolkien-related data you would like to contribute or if you would like to be involved in the project in some other way, please contact us.
We are particularly interested in journal editors, book publishers, artists, and content creators interested in incorporating metadata about their works into the linked data graph. (See Linking Secondary Material)
What is Linked Open Data?
Another video will follow soon with more details about the project itself.
Entity Classes
These will link to individual pages with more detail shortly.
- Text and Text Structure
- Bibliographic Information
- Lexical Information
- Characters
- Locations
- Dates and Times
- Scenes and Events
- Secondary Literature
- Poetry
- Letters
- Manuscripts
- Artwork
- Music
- Audiobooks
- Film Adaptations
- Primary World People, Places, and Dates
Roadmap
- Identifying sources of data (what exists? is it machine-actionable?)
- Inventing identifier schemes
- Investigating prior art (other LOD projects, etc)
- Prototyping examples
- Extracting from existing sources
- Publishing data / making endpoints available
“We have a long way to go, and there is time ahead for thought. It is something to have started.” Treebeard, LR 3.04.181