Mass digitisation and the exponential growth of born-digital archives over the past two decades have resulted in an enormous volume of archives and archival data being available digitally. This has produced a valuable but under-utilised source of large-scale digital data ripe for interrogation by scholars and practitioners in the Digital Humanities. However, current digitisation approaches fall short of the requirements of digital humanists for structured, integrated, interoperable, and interrogable data. Linked Data provides a viable means of producing such data, creating machine-readable archival data suited to analysis using digital humanities research methods. While a growing body of archival scholarship and praxis has explored Linked Data, its potential to open up digitised and born-digital archives to the Digital Humanities is under-examined. This article approaches Archival Linked Data from the perspective of the Digital Humanities, extrapolating from both archival and digital humanities Linked Data scholarship to identify the benefits to digital humanists of the production and provision of access to Archival Linked Data. It will consider some of the current barriers preventing digital humanists from being able to experience the benefits of Archival Linked Data evidenced, and to fully utilise archives which have been made available digitally. The article argues for increased collaboration between the two disciplines, challenges individuals and institutions to engage with Linked Data, and suggests the incorporation of AI and low-barrier tools such as Wikidata into the Linked Data production workflow in order to scale up the production of Archival Linked Data as a means of increasing access to and utilisation of digitised and born-digital archives.

在过去的二十年中，大规模数字化和原生数字档案的指数增长导致大量档案和档案数据以数字形式提供。这产生了一个有价值但未充分利用的大规模数字数据来源，可供数字人文领域的学者和从业者进行审问。然而，当前的数字化方法无法满足数字人文主义者对结构化、集成、可互操作和可查询数据的要求。关联数据提供了一种生成此类数据的可行方法，可以创建适合使用数字人文研究方法进行分析的机器可读档案数据。虽然越来越多的档案学术和实践探索了关联数据，但其向数字人文学科开放数字化和原生数字档案的潜力尚未得到充分研究。本文从数字人文学科的角度处理档案关联数据，从档案和数字人文学科关联数据奖学金中进行推断，以确定数字人文主义者对档案关联数据的生产和提供访问的好处。它将考虑当前阻碍数字人文主义者体验已证明的档案关联数据的好处，并充分利用以数字方式提供的档案的一些障碍。文章主张加强这两个学科之间的合作，挑战个人和机构参与关联数据，