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BiographySampo – Publishing and Enriching Biographies on the Semantic Web for Digital Humanities Research

Year: 2019

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: This paper argues for making a paradigm shift in publishing and using biographical dictionaries on the web, based on Linked Data. The idea is to provide the user with enhanced reading experience of biographies by enriching contents with data linking and reasoning. In addition, versatile tooling for (1) biographical research of individual persons as well as for (2) prosopographical research on groups of people are provided. To demonstrate and evaluate the new possibilities, we present the semantic portal “BiographySampo – Finnish Biographies on the Semantic Web”. The system is based on a knowledge graph extracted automatically from a collection of 13 100 textual biographies, enriched with data linking to 16 external data sources, and by harvesting external collection data from libraries, museums, and archives. The portal was released in September 2018 for free public use at http://biografiasampo.fi .

Source: Lecture notes in computer science

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-21348-0_37

Authors: Eero Hyvönen, Petri Leskinen, Minna Tamper, Heikki Rantala, Esko Ikkala, Jouni Tuominen, Kirsi Keravuori

Institutions: University of Helsinki, Aalto University, Finnish Literature Society

Language: English

Topic: Digital Humanities and Scholarship

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $5,392

OpenAlex ID: W2945467674

FWCI: 111

Cites: 34

Cited by: 49

Related to: 10