As part of a project to create a linked open data educational framework for teaching history and contextualizing underrepresented stories, we prepared information about the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 to be used as linked data. While our primary goal was to envision a pedagogical tool for fostering the exploration of historic events, we ourselves had moments of discovery when working with the example content data. This presentation will introduce the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire; describe the preliminary event model included in the linked open data educational framework; display an instantiation of data related to the fire; and explain the process of the creation of Wikidata URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers) for the 146 victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, many of whom were young immigrant women. This presentation will also feature ephemera from the 2011 “Triangle Fire Letters Project” art project by Anthony Giacchino.

Alice Griffin

Alice Griffin

Alice Griffin is an archivist graduating with her MSLIS in May 2019. She is especially interested in archival description and supporting access to archives. After Pratt, Alice will be starting an Archival Fellowship in the Manuscripts Division at Princeton University.
Sarah Ann Adams

Sarah Ann Adams

Sarah Adams is a first year Pratt graduate student in the Library and Information Science program. Her academic interests include knowledge organization, cataloging and classification, wikidata, and linked data. Sarah is Coordinator and Research Assistant for the Semantic Lab at Pratt [semlab.io]
Robin Miller

Robin Miller

Robin is a digital humanist working in the areas of Digital Humanities, GIS, and Linked Open Data.
Katie Wolf

Katie Wolf

An MLIS Candidate at Pratt Institute School of Information. Currently interested in metadata, databases, and academic librarianship.

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