Linked data in the Cold War archive

Katie Muth, katie.muth@durham.ac.uk

James Smith, james.smith3@durham.ac.uk

Whether they liked it or not, whether they knew it or not, there were few writers, poets, artists, historians, scientists or critics in post-war Europe whose names were not in some way linked to [the CIA's] covert enterprise. Unchallenged, undetected for over twenty years, America's spying establishment operated a sophisticated, substantially endowed cultural front in the West, for the West, in the name of freedom of expression.

Saunders (1999), p. 2

A scalable open access knowledge graph connecting

• declassified WWII and Cold War era government documents with
• literary figures implicated in covert cultural diplomacy

With the aim of 

• providing intelligence historians, literary scholars, and other researchers a 'bird's-eye' view of covert state influence in the creative sphere
• enriching contextual metadata about literary actors and institutions
• increasing discoverability and interpretability for government document collections 

Mapping the cultural/intelligence nexus in Britain and the US, c. 1939–1992

Katie Muth, Durham University
katie.muth@durham.ac.uk
https://krmuth.github.io/