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About this Digital Humanities Project
Knowledge Graph, Bibliography, Open Metadata and Public History
Српска верзија / Serbian version
Executive Summary
This website is a digital humanities project that connects scholarly bibliography, publication landing pages, thematic research clusters, open metadata and external authority identifiers. It focuses on the historical work of Miloš Timotijević, with particular emphasis on modern Serbian history, Čačak and western Serbia, local modernity, symbolic power, wartime experience, memory culture, cultural heritage, religious life and museum-based public history.
The project is not only a personal academic profile or a bibliography. It functions as a structured digital environment in which publications are connected to research themes, DOI records, repositories, Wikidata items, library catalogues, authority files and open scholarly infrastructures.
Project Overview
The purpose of this project is to make a large scholarly and museum-based corpus more visible, verifiable, citable and reusable. The website brings together several layers of information: biographical data, bibliographic records, selected publications, landing pages, thematic clusters, open metadata and external identifiers.
Each publication is treated not only as an isolated bibliographic item, but also as part of a broader research network. This allows the corpus to be read through recurring themes such as modernization, local government, political rituals, war, propaganda, national ideology, cultural representation, museum practice, religious life and public uses of the past.
The project is designed for human readers as well as for digital systems. It offers readable explanations for researchers, students, editors, librarians, museum professionals and the wider public, while also supporting machine readability through structured metadata, identifiers and links to external knowledge systems.
Research Scope
The research corpus covers modern Serbian history, with a strong focus on Čačak, western Serbia and the wider Yugoslav and Southeast European context. Local history is not treated here as a narrow regional field, but as an analytical framework for understanding broader historical processes.
The main themes include local modernity, urban transformation, socialist modernization, political culture, symbolic practices, wartime ruptures, occupation, propaganda, memory culture, cultural heritage, religious practices, public space, museum interpretation and the construction of collective identities.
Čačak and western Serbia are used as a historical laboratory for examining how large political, social, cultural and wartime processes become visible in local institutions, public spaces, rituals, monuments, museums, sacred sites, sport, everyday life and public memory.
Knowledge Graph and Thematic Clusters
A central element of the project is the knowledge graph. It organizes the research corpus into thematic clusters rather than presenting publications only in chronological or bibliographic order.
The main framework, Local Modernity and Symbolic Power in Southeast Europe , connects seven research clusters:
- Čačak as a Case Study of Local Modernity
- Political Rituals and Symbolic Politics
- National Ideology and Intellectual Debates
- War, Propaganda and Memory
- Culture, Nationalism and Symbolic Representation
- Cultural Heritage, Museums and Public History
- Religious Life and Social Practices
These clusters do not create a closed classification. Individual publications may belong primarily to one cluster while also having secondary links with others. This reflects the actual structure of historical research, in which topics such as war, memory, religion, public space, museums and symbolic power often overlap.
Open Metadata and Identifiers
The project uses external identifiers and open scholarly infrastructures to improve visibility, verification and interoperability. These include ORCID, DOI records, Wikidata, OpenAlex, DataCite Commons, Web of Science, Google Scholar, eNauka, Zenodo, COBISS, VIAF, ISNI, GND, LCCN and CONOR authority records.
Publication landing pages serve as stable access points. They connect bibliographic descriptions with DOI links, repositories, Wikidata items, library records, external profiles and thematic clusters.
The data section of the website provides a tabular layer of the project. It is intended to make the corpus easier to check, cite, update and reuse. Future development includes additional structured files such as JSON exports, DOI lists, Wikidata item lists and knowledge graph edge tables.
Digital Humanities Relevance
This project belongs to the field of digital humanities because it combines historical interpretation, bibliographic control, open metadata, knowledge organization and public history.
Its main contribution is not technical complexity, but structured scholarly interpretation. It transforms a personal and institutional research corpus into a connected digital resource. In doing so, it links traditional historiography, museum work, local history and digital knowledge infrastructures.
The project is especially relevant for contexts in which humanities publications, museum catalogues, local history studies and non-English scholarship are often underrepresented in global discovery systems. By connecting local research with international identifiers and open data structures, the project increases the visibility and usability of scholarship produced outside dominant academic centres.
Current Status and Future Development
The project is under active development. Existing components include the main academic profile, selected publication landing pages, a knowledge graph, thematic clusters, a data section and a methodological explanation of the system.
Future development will include additional landing pages, improved cluster descriptions, expanded structured datasets, clearer versioning, stronger links with external authority systems and more consistent metadata across the website.
The project should be understood as a developing scholarly infrastructure rather than a finished digital edition.
How to Use this Project
- Researchers may use the website to identify publications, themes, DOI records, Wikidata links and related works.
- Editors and librarians may use it to verify bibliographic data, authority identifiers and links to catalogues or repositories.
- Museum professionals and public historians may use it as an example of how museum-related scholarly production can be connected with digital visibility, public interpretation and structured metadata.
- Digital humanities researchers may use it as a small-scale example of an author-led knowledge graph connecting historiography, local history, cultural heritage and open scholarly infrastructure.
Related Sections
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Knowledge Graph and Digital Visibility
Main entry point into the thematic map of the research corpus.
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Explanation of the modelling principles behind entities, publications, clusters, landing pages and identifiers.
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Structured metadata layer of the digital scholarly corpus.
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Academic profile, selected works, bibliography and public professional activity.
Keywords
digital humanities; knowledge graph; open metadata; public history; modern Serbian history; local modernity; symbolic power; Čačak; western Serbia; war and memory; cultural heritage; museum practice; religious life; Wikidata; ORCID; DOI; DataCite; OpenAlex
Suggested Citation
Miloš Timotijević, “About this Digital Humanities Project: Knowledge Graph, Bibliography, Open Metadata and Public History,” personal scholarly website, accessed [date], https://milos-timotijevic.github.io/knowledge-graph/about-digital-humanities-project.html .
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