Karl Haberstock. Using Amazon Kindle's "Search Everything" function to quantify, locate, and analyze mentions in ebooks.
Any ebook or doc file on Kindle is searchable. Amazon's ebook device indexes books and (most) documents and provides fast searches through all content.
One quick search on Kindle shows that Haberstock's name appears:
If the ebook is loaded on Kindle, the results are immediate. And not limited to books. Kindle also searches through documents.
Immediately, with no coding, preparation or Uniform Resources Identifiers (URIs).
A click on any one of the books displayed will immediately take the user to a list of every text in which the word is mentioned, in context, and available for highlighting in Notes.
While awaiting for the promise of Linked Open Data to be fulfilled, Kindle can provide a simple tool to unify information. The only requirement: to download the ebook to the Kindle device.
How accessible is provenance information on museum websites?
In this Video ArtDataTests looks at NEPIP and FRED JONES JR MUSEUM OF ART to see whether the provenance for items listed on the Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal for the Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art is accessible.
Test script
1. Go to the Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal (NEPIP), search for Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art
2. Test link to museum (ERROR)
3. View artworks listed in NEPIP for the Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art
4. Scroll through the list to find an artwork with an artist other than "Anonymous", click on Maurice de Vlaminck
5. Click on "more information" to view Accession Number
6. Copy Accession Number
7. Go to Google, enter Search Collections Fred Jones
8. Click on Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art site
9. Look for Collections Search
10. In the absence of a Collections Search function, click on European Art and scroll down list until Vlaminck found (note that the title displayed is not the same as in NEPIP)
11. Click on painting and view item record to verify whether the provenance is visible (It is not. Neither is the accession number)
12. Click on next Vlaminck Video: https://youtu.be/K1xRjv707E4
Test Result: No search on provenance information. No display of provenance information.