The Orlando British Women's Writing Dataset Release 1: Biography and Bibliography

This dataset provides a rich set of linked open data representing women's literary history from the beginnings to the present, concentrated on writing in English in the British Isles but with tentacles out to other languages, literary traditions, and parts of the world. It emerges from the ongoing experiments in literary history conducted by The Orlando Project, whose textbase is published by Cambridge University Press (2006-present) as Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present, edited by Susan Brown, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy and created, updated, and augmented by a large interdisciplinary team (see the Orlando Project website). The dataset was created as part of the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory's work in Linked Open Data as a means of enabling digital scholarship and collaboration in the humanities. The Orlando Textbase is a semi-structured collection of biocritical entries providing detailed information on the lives and writing of more than 1400 writers with accompany literary, social, and political materials to provide context to its representation of literary history. It does not contain digitized versions of primary texts. The aim of extracting linked data from Orlando's textbase is to make the data accessible in new ways to discovery, querying, analysis, and visualization; to promote interlinking between Orlando and other related materials on the web; and to experiment with the potential of Linked Open Data technologies to support knowledge production and dissemination in the humanities. This is a first release of the dataset, which will be augmented and refined over time. This release is focused on the internal linking of biographical information using the CWRC ontology, with selective linking out to other ontology terms and other linked data entities. All of Orlando's bibliographical data, linked to Orlando authors, is also included in this release. This dataset comprised approximately 5 million triples. The CWRC Ontology Specification 0.99.80 should be used in conjunction with the RDF data. For fuller information see the \"Release Notes\" archived with this dataset.