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Spring 2025

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PhiloBiblon: From siloed databases to linked open data via Wikibase.

Charles B. Faulhaber, Professor  
Spanish and Portuguese  

Applications for Spring 2025 are closed for this project.

Conversion of the PhiloBiblon relational database of ca. 420,000 records to the netgraph architecture of FactGrid: a database for historians. The software used is Wikibase, the same software used for Wikipedia.

PhiloBiblon is a database of the Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan primary sources (manuscripts and early printed books) of medieval Iberian culture along with the texts they contain, the individuals and institutions involved with the production and transmission of those sources and texts, and relevant secondary references. This project is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Role: The task of the apprentice will be to help clean up the errors and inconsistencies in legacy data in Spanish, Catalan, or Portuguese in order to map it into FactGrid.

The apprentice will learn how to deal with the most varied aspects of texts over 500 years old.

Qualifications: Knowledge of Spanish or Portuguese or Catalan required.
Highly desirable to have a knowledge of more than one language.
Knowledge of data science desirable.

Day-to-day supervisor for this project: Charles Faulhaber, Staff Researcher

Hours: 6-8 hrs

Off-Campus Research Site: After several initial in-person orientation meetings, all the work will be conducted remotely. A good internet connection will be essential.

Related website: https://philobiblon.upf.edu/html/
Related website: https://database.factgrid.de/wiki/FactGrid:PhiloBiblon

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