Nordic Spatial Humanities: Ups and Downs in LOD Implementation across Humanities’ Digital Spatial Research Infrastructures in the Nordic Countries

The article constitutes a report of a LOD application attempt undertaken within the humanities’ spatial research (SRI)/spatial data infrastructure (SDI) sector. The case study is carried out on the geocoded data, mostly place-names and place-name attestations, of the four chosen Nordic SRIs: Icelandic Saga Map, Mapping Saints, Norse World and Norwegian Place-names. Ontologically, the case study aims at the implementation of Linked Art Data Model across the four resources. Methodologically, the SRIs data went through cleaning, transformation and augmentation stages. The results section demonstrates that the outcomes of the LOD implementation and the test querying have been uneven which is explained partially by the differences between the SRIs as well as by time constrains. In the discussion, the article reflects on possible alternative methodology, technological challenges such as scalability as well as its contribution to the field.