From Principles to Praxis: Remediating Feminist Archives in Linked Open Data

Abstract

Drawing on experience gained from building a feminist digital humanities project in Linked Open Data (LOD), this article outlines five principles for authoring data for feminist scholarship and research. Using data from the New York–based Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics, the AdArchive project represents advertising information from the magazine using RDF triples – the building blocks of LOD – in a dataset that will be both interoperable with other datasets and queryable on the larger Semantic Web. With an explicit commitment to feminist praxis, the AdArchive project provides a practical example of how data authoring can be shaped by feminist orientations. Ultimately, we argue that there is no neutral digital form or tool in either LOD or other digital environments, but researchers can successfully practise feminism when approaching the remediation of data.