BDDA Knowledge Graphs
The Black Death Digital Archive maintains, as one of its primary assets, a repository of knowledge graphs we believe to be of use to researchers studying the Second Plague.
The repository is in an early stage of formation and currently contains only two data sets: references to plague in the Turkish Archives, and a graph representation of the Biraben data table compiled by Krauer and Schmid. We are counting on the BDDA community to provide more.
Organization
One of the primary aims of the BDDA is to use linked open data principles to integrate data from different sources. One of the building blocks is a common gazetteer of known, named places. We will be working with the World Historical Gazetteer to integrate our data into their resource; as an intermediate step, we are compiling a BDDA gazetteer to integrate our data sets.
(Please see our data-modeling repository for information about how the BDDA models references to places in historical sources.)