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Data Repository of the Week - New Zealand World War I Data

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New Zealand WWI Linked Open Data uses data sourced from NZ's Nominal Embarkation Rolls - a series of documents listing the details of those departing for service overseas - to help answer questions about the social impact of WWI on New Zealand society.

The site provides examples of how the data can be queried and visualised by researchers.

The site has a tutorial and also information on how the data was marked up and linked so it would be accessible for computerised queries, i.e. digitised to TEI XML, converted to XML, then transformed to RDF N-Triples and so on.