What we learned from preparing for a Linked Open Data hackathon

The Heyblocq album amicorum can be considered a ‘Facebook avant-la-lettre', with semantic links between Heyblocq and all album contributors. Famous contributors are richly described in LOD databases of other parties. As we aimed to link the past to the present in a fun manner, we chose to partly recreate the user interface and interaction of modern popular social media.