The beautiful VinLOD Saga project was created by Ilaria De Dominicis and Regina Manyara, both students at the Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge Master’s program at the University of Bologna. The project connects real-world cultural heritage objects – such as the painting by Christian Krohg below – with the popular manga (also adapted into anime) Vinland Saga in linked data form. Among the various metadata standards used in the project, the manga and anime objects were in part modeled using the JVMG ontology and the RDF ontology created for the AnimeClick subgraph in the JVMG. The project website is not only visually appealing, but also full of details regarding the data modelling decisions with large-scale diagrams of the final model, and even includes the annotated digital text versions of two of the interlinked cultural heritage objects.
