@inproceedings{mallia-etal-2024-digitant,
    title = "{D}ig{I}t{A}nt: a platform for creating, linking and exploiting {LOD} lexica with heterogeneous resources",
    author = "Mallia, Michele  and
      Bandini, Michela  and
      Bellandi, Andrea  and
      Murano, Francesca  and
      Piccini, Silvia  and
      Rigobianco, Luca  and
      Tommasi, Alessandro  and
      Zavattari, Cesare  and
      Zinzi, Mariarosaria  and
      Quochi, Valeria",
    editor = "Chiarcos, Christian  and
      Gkirtzou, Katerina  and
      Ionov, Maxim  and
      Khan, Fahad  and
      McCrae, John P.  and
      Ponsoda, Elena Montiel  and
      Chozas, Patricia Mart{\'\i}n",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics @ LREC-COLING 2024",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.ldl-1.8",
    pages = "55--65",
    abstract = "Over the past few years, the deployment of Linked Open Data (LOD) technologies has witnessed significant advancements across a myriad of sectors, linguistics included. This progression is characterized by an exponential increase in the conversion of resources to adhere to contemporary encoding standards. Such transformations are driven by the objectives outlined in {``}ecological{''} methodologies, notably the FAIR data principles, which advocate for the reuse and interoperability of resources. This paper presents the DigItAnt architecture, developed in the context of a national project funded by the Italian Ministry of Research and in the service of a recently started Italian endeavor to realize a federation of infrastructures for the humanities. It details its services, utilities and data types, and shows how it manages to produce, exploit and interlink LLOD and non-LLOD datasets in ways that are meaningful to its intended target disciplinary context, i.e. historical linguistics over epigraphy data. The paper also introduces how DigItAnt services and functionalities will contribute to the empowerment of the H2IOSC Italian infrastructures cluster project, which is devoted to the construction of a nationwide research infrastructure federation for the humanities, and it will possibly contribute to its pilot project towards an authoritative LLOD platform.",
}

Over the past few years, the deployment of Linked Open Data (LOD) technologies has witnessed significant advancements across a myriad of sectors, linguistics included. This progression is characterized by an exponential increase in the conversion of resources to adhere to contemporary encoding standards. Such transformations are driven by the objectives outlined in {``}ecological{''} methodologies, notably the FAIR data principles, which advocate for the reuse and interoperability of resources. This paper presents the DigItAnt architecture, developed in the context of a national project funded by the Italian Ministry of Research and in the service of a recently started Italian endeavor to realize a federation of infrastructures for the humanities. It details its services, utilities and data types, and shows how it manages to produce, exploit and interlink LLOD and non-LLOD datasets in ways that are meaningful to its intended target disciplinary context, i.e. historical linguistics over epigraphy data. The paper also introduces how DigItAnt services and functionalities will contribute to the empowerment of the H2IOSC Italian infrastructures cluster project, which is devoted to the construction of a nationwide research infrastructure federation for the humanities, and it will possibly contribute to its pilot project towards an authoritative LLOD platform.
Mallia, Michele B ini, Michela Bell i, Andrea Murano, Francesca Piccini, Silvia Rigobianco, Luca Tommasi, Aless ro Zavattari, Cesare Zinzi, Mariarosaria Quochi, Valeria
DigItAnt: a platform for creating, linking and exploiting LOD lexica with heterogeneous resources