The funding achieved was the result of a collective application spanning the different facets of Philobiblon, including BITAGAP (“Bibliografia de Textos Antigos Galegos e Portugueses” / “Bibliography of Galician and Portuguese Ancient Texts”), which includes Harvey L. Sharrer, from IEM’s External Monitoring Committee and Maria de Lurdes Rosa, a researcher at IEM. With an annual duration, the project aims to analyse how the Wikibase/ FactGrid infrastructure can contribute to the transformation of four compartmentalised databases into a single online platform, providing access to scholarly research on the medieval Iberian Peninsula. This will include mapping Philobiblon according to LD and RDF (Linked Open Data and Resource Description Framework), prototyping some of the modules, examining the links between the access points and libraries as well as testing a model to be then placed on GitHub.
https://www.neh.gov/news/neh-announces-24-million-225-humanities-projects-nationwide
The modernisation and open access thereby made possible will be vital to the continuity and survival of this extraordinary database of Iberian medieval texts and their authors, housed at the Bancroft Library at U. Berkeley, USA. Founded as a website in 1997 from previous repositories existing since the early 1970s, the project is coordinated by Charles B. Faulhaber (with BITAGAP coordinated by Arthur L.-F. Askins), operates collaboratively and maintains data of contributors free of any charge while providing open access to all users.
https://bancroft.berkeley.edu/philobiblon/
