This document discusses the use of semantic annotations and linked data in digital humanities projects. It begins by outlining some common "scholarly primitives" or methods used by humanities researchers, such as annotating, comparing, and representing. It then provides examples of digital humanities projects that employ techniques like semantic annotations, named entity identification, and linking open data to transform traditional scholarly workflows. Specifically, it describes projects involving networks of historical figures, semantic annotation of philosophical texts, and modeling relationships in a linked data framework. The document concludes by discussing how linked open data can treat the web as a global database and provides statistics on the growth of linked open datasets.