[humanities-dev] First Prototypes of DM2E Tools Ready for Testing

[Sam Leon]

Dear Humanities Dev List,

The Open Knowledge Foundation has been working on the DM2E
<http://dm2e.eu> project for
six months now. The aims of the project are to enable as many content
providers as possible to upload content to Europeana and to develop tools
for digital manuscript scholarship.

We're really pleased to announce the release of the prototypes of two of
the DM2E tools for user testing. Please do check out these new tools (Korbo
and Pundit), and give us feedback via the forms below so that we can
improve them.

Cheers,
Sam

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*Korbo*

Pundit is a powerful aggregation platform for gathering Linked Data objects
relevant to your area of research into single workspaces or “baskets”.

Pundit is targetted priarily at developers who want to build applications
on top of its API and make full use of linked cultural data from sources
such as Europeana, FreeBase and DBPedia.

Korbo is currently in the early stages of development, but you can already
try out a demo version of the platform. Please do give us feedback on your
experiences as this is invaluable information for future iterations – Korbo
user feedback questionnaire<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHNXd0ZleUx5RDlYZTRTekFJLWtVZGc6MQ#gid=0>
.

TEST KORBO <http://korbo.muruca.org/demo.php>

*Pundit*

Pundit is a powerful but easy to use semantic annotation tool that can work
with the objects collected within a Korbo “basket.

It enables you to link sections of text to each other or to other Linked
Data resources on the net such as DBPedia, Freebase and Geonames. In case a
text document comes with a microstructure including sub-entities identified
by URIs such structures can be used transparently – or else a highlighting
function will be available that would as well enable the highlighting of
image areas.

Pundit is currently in it Alpha phase, but you can already try out a demo
version of the platform. Please remember to give us feedback on your
experinces of Korbo via the Pundit
questionnaire<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dExoMEV1MGJEcm9PNzF4VkI2NzZBRXc6MQ#gid=0>

TEST PUNDIT <http://thepund.it/demo.php>

*Going forward*

Both tools will continue to be developed as part of the DM2E (Digitised
Manuscripts to Europeana) project on the basis of feedback we receive from
user testing and continuing work on user requiremnets and scholarly
primitives led by Professor Gradmann at the Humboldt Universität.

To follow the project and receive updates about events, conferences and
code sprints we are running, please sign up to the project mailing
list<http://sympa.cms.hu-berlin.de/sympa/subscribe/dm2e-news>or visit
the project
website <http://dm2e.eu>.

-- 
Sam Leon
Community Coordinator
Open Knowledge Foundation
http://okfn.org/
Twitter: @noeL_maS
Skype: samedleon
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