Linked Jazz Project
Linked Jazz is a research project investigating the application of Linked Open Data technologies to digital cultural heritage materials. The project draws on jazz history materials in digital format to expose relationships between musicians and reveal their community network. They collect this data from different forms of media and connect them through their web making it easy to find the relationships between jazz musicians.
Located
Pratt Institute School of
Library Information Science
144 W. 14th Street, 6th floor
New York, NY 10011
Why They Are Doing It
They are linking these Jazz artist together between document and data because new modes of connecting cultural data have the potential to open up new and unprecedented avenues of research community engagement.
When
The Linked Jazz project started in 2009 and throughout their time with the project they experienced three phases of growth
Phase 1- data
In this phase they used 50+ interview transcripts to create a tool to help collect data called LOD. It is a transcript analyzer, a name mapping and curator tool, and a crowdsourcing tool that helped them to find names mentioned during interviews and collect the data they needed.
Phase 2 – crowdsourcing tool
In this step they took both the interview questions and answer blocks to their crowdsourcing tool, Linked Jazz 52nd Street. Here is where they use snippets of the interviews and let people decided and assign terms to describe the relationship between the two musicians.
Phase 3 – network visualization
In the last phase of their project they use the network visualization tool to show the knowns of triples. They also use it to display videos, images, and short biographies of jazz musicians within the network.
