DIVE+: Exploring Linked Integrated Data

In this paper we present DIVE+, which aims to advance the way in which researchers and general audience interact with heterogeneous online heritage collections by allowing an integrated exploration of objects of these collections. Within the context of DIVE+, we developed various data enrichment and linking strategies, resulting in an interconnected dataset. We especially focus on events. Rather than restricting the type of events, we include named historical events (Second World War), unnamed historical events (The Dutch prime minister making new year’s speech) or personal events (Death of a person). This is in addition to person, concept and location-based enrichments, as events can be combined into event narratives as context for searching, browsing and presenting cultural heritage collection objects. DIVE+ is the result of a true interdisciplinary collaboration between computer scientists, humanities scholars, cultural heritage professionals and interaction designers. DIVE+ is integrated in the national CLARIAH (Common Lab Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) research infrastructure.