The SWHi (Semantic Web for History) project is aimed at integrating, combining, and deducing information on the early American history, based on the Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 collection, to assist general users or historians in exploring American history by using new technology offered by the Semantic Web.

Although this project is initially limited to the historical domain, but in the future, its results can be applied to other domains and heterogeneous resources.

This project is a cooperation between the Digital Library department of the University Library of Groningen and the Information Science department of the University of Groningen.

The duration of this project is two years, from January 15, 2006 until January 15, 2008. The work is divided into three phases: identification, development, and releases. After each release, improvement cycles will be conducted.