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With the rapid development of the digital humanities (DH) field, demands for historical and cultural heritage data have generated deep interest the data provided by libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs). In order to enhance LAM data’s quality and discoverability while enabling a self-sustaining ecosystem, “semantic enrichment” becomes a strategy increasingly used by LAMs during recent years. This article introduces a number of semantic enrichment methods and efforts that can be applied to LAM data at various levels, aiming to support deeper and wider exploration and use of LAM data in DH research. The real cases, research projects, experiments, and pilot studies shared in this article demonstrate endless potential for LAM data, whether they are structured, semi-structured, or unstructured, regardless of what types of original artifacts carry the data. Following their roadmaps would encourage more effective initiatives and strengthen this effort to maximize LAM data’s discoverability, use- and reuse-ability, and their value in the mainstream of DH and Semantic Web.

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Electric Vehicles (EV) are being introduced in the market, however the reduced energy storage capacity of their batteries and the lack of a high density charging infrastructure, limits their autonomy range. In order to overcome this limitation, we propose the development of a new solution for EV drivers that enables to travel longer distances. This is achieved by integrating some components of the cooperative transport infrastructure, as EV battery charging systems and public transports systems, and by increasing the driving autonomy through energy consumption reduction, achieved by driving efficiency increase. The integration with the charging infrastructure allows planning the journey of the driver, considering the position of charging points, and booking a charging point for a specific time period in order to perform the battery charging. Therefore, the distance that the driver can drive comfortably, without fearing running out of battery, is increased. The integration of the EV with public transports systems allows extending the travel distance beyond the EV drive autonomy, given by the storing capacity of vehicle’s battery. The supplying of information on availability, schedule and price of public transports allows planning the journey of the driver, using the EV and public transportation in a complementary way, through functions like car parking booking (and charging) and ticket buying. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)