Welcome to the project page for "Exploring the Benefits for Users of Linked Open Data for Digitized Special Collections"

This page details developments, reports, updates and outcomes of this completed Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded project centered at the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS), at the School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This project examined use of linked open data in special collections--specifically the Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design, the Kolb-Proust Archive for Research and Portraits of Actors, 1720-1920 collections, all housed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.