The document introduces Pundit, a tool for creating semantic annotations that allow humanities scholars to collaboratively generate structured data from text and images. It highlights the advantages of using machines for data analysis and the need for human input in the data collection process. Pundit offers customizable annotation vocabularies and templates, as well as access to annotations through a REST API.

1. SEMANTIC ANNOTATION
WITH PUNDIT
Short introduction
Alessio Piccioli - Net7 SRL
Christian Morbidoni - Università Politecnica delle Marche

2. LINKED DATA
FOR HUMANITIES SCHOLARS
• Machines do not think like you do …
• … they will not do your research for you! …
• Sorry :-)

3. LINKED DATA
FOR HUMANITIES SCHOLARS
• But machines are better than you in:
• Reading/analysing data faster
• Collecting and merging data
• Transmitting and making data available
• Transforming data into something useful
• Intermediate results that can help you reasoning

4. Ampere + Lod Live

5. Timelinejs + Bode letters

10. LINKED DATA
FOR HUMANITIES SCHOLARS
• To do this machines needs data first!
• Libraries have data, but it is not enough
• Some data can be “automagically“ extracted…
• … but not always and not without help from humans

11. • Here is where Pundit comes in
• Enabling you to create data by annotating
• structured data that machines can re-use
• collaboratively created data

13. • Create structured data by annotating text and images
• Share and publish your annotations
• Configure for your specific domain
• Custom annotation vocabularies
• Custom annotation templates
• REST API to consume annotations from third party apps

14. • Use it by…
• Including JS library in your web site
• Deploying a bookmarklet
• As-a-service (via feed.thepund.it)
• Links:
• Web site: http://thepund.it
• GitHub: https://github.com/net7/pundit2 , https://github.com/net7/pundit-server
• YES… IT IS OPEN SOURCE!

15. FEEDBACK
• Your feedback is precious!
• After the session please spend some time to fill the questionnaire:
• http://goo.gl/gvHPuf