Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI)- Facilitating Research -

Humanities Networked Infrastructure

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• Combines data from many Australian cultural websites into the biggest humanities and creative arts database ever assembled in Australia. HuNI data covers all disciplines and brings together information about the people, works, events, organisations and places that make up the country's rich cultural landscape.

• Multi-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary• Currently brings together 30 different data sources

HuNI

The researchers save these results as a Virtual Collection in the HuNI

Lab

One or more researchers searches the HuNI data and displays the

results in different formats

The researchers refine or expand their Virtual Collection through

additional searching of the HuNI data

The researchers add and save links between records and specify the

nature of the relationships

The researchers publish and share their Virtual Collections with other

researchers

The researchers export their Virtual Collections for further analysis

HuNI

Data Sources

Data Sources

PERSON A natural person

ORGANISATION A company, club, trust, gallery, political party, etc.

WORK A cultural artefact or ‘man-made’ thing created by someone, that has some existence in its own right, either physical or digital

PLACE A real, spatial location

EVENT An activity that occurs in space and time and may involve people, organisations, places, works, etc.

CONCEPT Something which exists primarily in an ideational state

HuNI Record Category

Data mapping

• 30 datasets have been mapped

• More than 726,000 entities created in the aggregated dataset

Virtual laboratory

• Officially launch on 23rd October 2014

• Fully functioning site currently in use

Current Status

Building Collections

Socially Linked Data

Login/Register

• Complete Profile

Search

• Keywords

• Filter by Category or Data Provider

• Explore Data Record and Source

My HuNI

• Create a Collection from Search Results

• Form Links Between Records

• Define the Nature of the Link

Getting Started with HuNI

Creating a Collection

• Possible Steps:• Choose a topic

• Search HuNI to find relevant records

• Create a Collection to hold relevant records

• Make this Collection public so others can share your research

HuNI - Tasks

HuNI - Tasks

Creating Links

• Try to create links between

two commonly unrelated

entities

• For example: Hugh

Jackman and Switzerland