About this Digital Humanities Project

Knowledge Graph, Scholarly Bibliography, Structured Metadata, Open Data and Public History

Project in Brief

This author-led digital humanities project presents the scholarly and museum work of Miloš Timotijević as a connected digital corpus. It brings together bibliography, selected publication landing pages, research clusters, structured metadata, persistent identifiers and links to external bibliographic, repository and authority records.

Its principal historical focus is modern Serbian and Yugoslav history, with particular attention to Čačak and western Serbia, local modernity, political culture, war, memory, religious life, cultural heritage, museums and public history.

The project does not replace library catalogues, repositories, DOI registries or scholarly databases. It connects records from these systems with the interpretative structure of an individual scholarly corpus.

Research Scope

The corpus covers modern Serbian history within the wider Yugoslav and Southeast European context. Čačak and western Serbia form an important geographical focus, but local history is not treated as a narrow regional field. It provides an analytical framework for examining broader historical processes in a clearly defined social and cultural setting.

The main subjects include local modernity, urban transformation, socialist modernisation, political culture, symbolic practices, national ideology, war, occupation, propaganda, memory culture, religious practices, public space, cultural heritage, museum interpretation, sport and the public use of the past.

Čačak and western Serbia therefore serve as case-study settings through which broader processes of modernisation, political mobilisation, war, memory and cultural change can be examined in local institutions, public spaces, rituals, monuments, museums, sacred sites and everyday life.

Knowledge Graph and Research Clusters

The knowledge graph organises the corpus through research relationships rather than presenting publications only in chronological or bibliographic order. It connects individual works with broader themes and longer-term lines of research.

The main research framework, Local Modernity and Symbolic Power in Southeast Europe , connects seven research clusters:

The clusters are interpretative and not mutually exclusive. A publication may have a principal place in one cluster while also relating to several others. Cluster membership represents a historiographical judgement rather than an automatically generated classification.

Bibliographic Metadata and Historiographical Interpretation

The project distinguishes between an intellectual work, a particular published edition and the records that describe them in catalogues, repositories, identifier systems and scholarly databases. These records may refer to the same work or edition, but they are not interchangeable.

It also distinguishes verifiable bibliographic metadata from interpretative relationships. Author names, titles, publication dates, publishers, ISBNs, DOI values and library records can be checked against external sources. Connections between a publication, a research theme and a cluster are based on historiographical interpretation.

This distinction helps readers understand which parts of the graph describe recorded facts and which parts express an analytical reading of the corpus. A fuller explanation is available on the Method page.

Identifiers, External Records and Open Data

The project connects several types of external records and services. They have different functions and are not treated as equivalent sources.

Author identifiers

ORCID iD, VIAF ID, ISNI, GND ID, LCCN and CONOR records help connect different forms of an author’s name across languages, scripts and cataloguing systems.

Publication identifiers

DOI and other persistent identifiers may refer to a work, a particular edition, a publication landing page or a repository version. Their function is recorded separately whenever the distinction is significant.

Library and authority systems

COBISS, WorldCat and related authority systems provide bibliographic and identity records for authors and publications.

Repositories

Zenodo and related repositories preserve and provide access to deposited publications, datasets and supporting materials.

Registries and aggregators

Crossref and DataCite register and exchange DOI metadata, while OpenAlex, Google Scholar, Web of Science and eNauka aggregate or index scholarly records.

Public knowledge graphs

Wikidata connects people, works, institutions, places and research concepts within a public and reusable knowledge graph.

Publication landing pages provide dedicated access points within this website. They connect bibliographic descriptions with DOI links, repositories, Wikidata items, library records, external profiles and research clusters.

The Data section provides downloadable CSV, JSON and JSON-LD files, including bibliographic records, DOI and Wikidata tables, publication exports and a manifest for checking file integrity.

The structure of the files, controlled values, DOI distinctions, licensing terms and citation guidance are documented in the Data Dictionary .

Why this is a Digital Humanities Project

The project brings together historical interpretation, bibliographic description, knowledge organisation, structured metadata, open data and public history within an author-led scholarly website.

Digital methods are used not only to display publications but also to clarify relationships between works, editions, external records, research themes and cultural contexts. The result is a connected resource that remains grounded in conventional historical research and source criticism.

This approach is particularly relevant to humanities publications, museum catalogues, local-history studies and non-English scholarship that may be incompletely represented in international discovery systems. Connecting such work with persistent identifiers, authority records and reusable data makes it easier to find, verify and cite.

Scope, Maintenance and Limitations

This is an author-led scholarly corpus, not an institutional repository, a national bibliography or a replacement for library catalogues, DOI registries and scholarly databases.

The corpus is maintained and expanded as new publications, landing pages and verified external records are added. The absence of a particular identifier does not imply that a publication is less significant; it may simply mean that the corresponding record has not yet been added or verified.

External services may update their records slowly, display incomplete metadata or introduce errors. Links and identifiers are therefore checked periodically, but their appearance in third-party systems remains outside the direct control of this website.

Research clusters and thematic relationships are reasoned interpretations of the corpus. They are not the only possible classification and should not be treated as automatically generated or definitive categories.

Bibliographic metadata may be reused under the terms stated in the Data section. The metadata licence does not cover full texts, photographs, illustrations or other material protected by copyright and related rights.

How to Use the Project

Researchers and students may use the site to identify publications, follow recurring research themes and locate DOI, repository, Wikidata and library records.
Editors, librarians and museum professionals may use it to check bibliographic metadata, author identifiers and links between publications, catalogues and repositories.
Digital humanities and public history researchers may examine it as an author-led knowledge graph connecting historiography, local history, museum scholarship, cultural heritage and structured data.

Suggested Citation

Miloš Timotijević, “About this Digital Humanities Project,” in Miloš Timotijević — Academic Profile and Knowledge Graph , accessed [date].

Individual publications should normally be cited through the publication itself, its main DOI, a specific edition or a repository record. When structured data are reused, the relevant file and the Data section should be cited.

Last updated: 23 July 2026.