Document digitization and text analysis methods have dramatically increased the number of digitally available historical sources in Semitic languages over the recent years. Recent achievements in text processing in both Arabic and Hebrew enable the extraction of structured information on places, people, organizations, and events from these texts.
Parallel to these developments, various endeavors to create open repositories for structured historical data in Hebrew and Arabic have emerged in recent years. These resources, however, remain disconnected and no unifying interface exists that allows researchers to ask data-driven questions over multiple sources irrespective of their source language.
