User Guide Overview

Welcome to the JudaicaLink User Guide! This guide will help you navigate and effectively use the different features and resources available within JudaicaLink.

What is JudaicaLink?

JudaicaLink is a Linked Open Data project dedicated to Jewish studies, providing structured and interconnected knowledge about Jewish history, culture, and scholarship. It integrates multiple datasets, making them easily accessible through a knowledge graph, entity-based searches, and a SPARQL endpoint.

Key Features

1. Search Functionality

JudaicaLink offers multiple ways to search and explore data:

• Knowledge Graph Search: Search for persons, places, institutions, and other entities in structured data.

• Full-Text Search in Compact Memory: Query historical Jewish newspapers and documents.

• Entity Extraction Search: Find entities automatically identified within historical texts using NLP.

2. SPARQL Endpoint

For advanced users, JudaicaLink provides a SPARQL query interface , enabling custom queries against the structured knowledge graph.

• 🔗 Access the SPARQL endpoint: https://data.judaicalink.org/sparql.html.

• Learn how to construct SPARQL queries in the SPARQL Guide.

3. Linked Open Data (LOD) Integration

JudaicaLink integrates with major Linked Data resources such as GND, Wikidata, DBpedia, VIAF, and Geonames, allowing enriched and interconnected research.

4. Dataset Exploration

• Browse available datasets via https://data.judaicalink.org.

• Understand how datasets are structured in the Dataset Guide <datasets>.

5. Entity Pages

• JudaicaLink provides Entity Pages, which aggregate information from multiple sources about an entity.

• See examples of entity pages at: https://data.judaicalink.org/data/html/.

How to Use This Guide

This guide is divided into several sections to help users get started with JudaicaLink:

1. Getting Started – A step-by-step guide to accessing JudaicaLink.

2. Search Guide – Instructions on how to use the different search methods.

3. SPARQL Guide – How to construct SPARQL queries.

4. Dataset Guide – Information about the datasets available.

5. Content Negotiation – Learn how to retrieve data in different formats.

6. FAQs – Answers to common questions.

Who Can Use JudaicaLink?

JudaicaLink is designed for:

• Researchers & Historians looking for structured Jewish studies data.

• Librarians & Archivists managing bibliographic and archival data.

• Developers & Data Scientists integrating JudaicaLink data into applications.

• General Users interested in exploring Jewish history and culture.

Next Steps

• Start with Getting Started.

• If you need help, visit the FAQs or contact us at https://labs.judaicalink.org/contact/.