Die kleinen Leute und ihre Briefe
Herausforderungen & Chancen einer Bereitstellung von verlinkten offenen Normdaten für alle

“Farvel og skriv snart”

Annika Rockenberger, Ph.D., Universitätsbibliothek Oslo

Common People and Their Letters
Challenges and Opportunities of Linked Open Authority Data for Everyone

“Farvel og skriv snart”

Annika Rockenberger, Ph.D., University Library of Oslo

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15647975

Introduction

• From Norway to America
   
• America Letters
   
• Editions and Digitised Letters I
   
• Editions and Digitised Letters II

From Norway to America

The sloop "Restauration". Image by Dybdal - http://www.fresvik.gs.sf.no/bilete/utv-seil.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2186656. Public Domain (CC0)

America Letters

Left side: Page 1 of a letter from 1853. Unknown sender, writing to their sister and brother-in-law, Søren Christensen Ringi in Kristiana (Oslo), Norway.
 

Right upper side: Envelope of a letter from a citizen, sending a private collection of 'America Letters' to the National Archives.
 

Right lower side: Letter by Per Johannessen accompanying the historical letters from his collection, donated to the National Archives.

https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/209281/7

https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/209281/3

https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/209281/5

Editions and Digitised Letters

Photo taken by Annika Rockenberger

Editions and Digitised Letters

Screenshot of the main page of the Norwegian Local History Wiki (https://lokalhistoriewiki.no/wiki/Lokalhistoriewiki:Hovedside)

Norwegian Correspondences
NorKorr

• Correspondence Metadata Aggregator
   
• Mass Digitisation in Norway

NorKorr – Correspondence Metadata Aggregator

An early concept of the NorKorr Metadata Aggregator. The image is part of the poster, presented at the DHN2019 conference in Copenhagen. The poster is archived on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4322351

Mass Digitisation in Norway

Image of the magnetic tapes in the National Library of Norway. Source:

https://images.app.goo.gl/aC8RhnyrD1WKuqHz5

Metadata and Authority Data

• Data: Metadata, Authority Data, Linked Data
   
• Challenges of Linked Authority Data in NorKorr
   
• America Letters in NorKorr

Data:
Metadata, Authority Data, Linked Data

Elise Tvede

Elise Amalie Tvede

Elise Wærenskjold

Taale Andreas Gjestvang

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Elise Tvede

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Challenges of Linked Data in NorKorr

Edvard Munch Correspondence

America Letters

Norwegian Letters

Camilla Collet's Letters

"The Many Unknown"

America Letters in NorKorr

Screenshot from CorrespSearch showing results from the edition "Norgesbrev". On the right side panel, where additional information is displayed for authority data, the results for "persons" are empty, since there are not authority data links. https://correspsearch.net/en/search.html?e=ca6da774-7f80-427d-b9fb-78aad2854bf4&t=norkorr&x=1&w=0

Opportunities with
Linked Open Data

• The Historical Population Register
   
• Opportunities

The Historical Population Register

The landing page of the Historical Population Register https://histreg.no/index.php/home (in Norwegian).

Opportunities

Source: https://histreg.no/index.php/home – using the surname Taale Andreas and the family name Gjestvang retrieves a list of hits. These persons share the same name, but may not be the same person. A key indicator is the year of birth. The displayed PFIDs are automatically assigned to each person named in an archival authority source, like the census. HBR will consolidate PFIDs into one HBR-ID for all mentions of the same person across sources.

Credits

• All text, unless directly quoted from sources or literature, is written by Annika Rockenberger and licensed under CC-BY 4.0.
• Generative AI has not been used for creating texts or images.
• License information for each image is listed below.

Credits