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Open Scriptures: Platform for the development of open scriptural linked data and its applications
Open Scriptures: Platform for the development of open scriptural linked data and its applications
Open Scriptures seeks to be a comprehensive open-source Web
repository for integrated scriptural data and a general application
framework for building internationalized social applications of
scripture. An abundance of scriptural resources are now available
online—manuscripts, translations, and annotations are all being made
available by students and scholars alike at an ever-increasing rate.
These diverse scriptural resources, however, are isolated from each
other and fragmented across the Internet. Thus mashing up the available
data into new scriptural applications is not currently possible for the
community at large because the resources’ interrelationships are not
systematically documented. Open Scriptures aims to establish a
scriptural database for interlinked textual resources such as merged
manuscripts, the differences among them, and the links between their
semantic units and the semantic units of their translations. With such a
foundation in place, derived scriptural data like cross-references may
be stored in a translation-neutral and internationalized manner so as to
be accessible to the community no matter what language they speak or
version they prefer.
Open Scriptures is all about Linked Data for scripture. Please watch Tim Berners-Lee‘s TED talk on “The next Web of open, linked data.” As Zack Hubert said
at the BibleTech:2008, “It’s a community effort. Any time anything good
happens, is because a real cool team of people have come together
around an idea.” Open Scriptures seeks to be such a community effort.
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