Linked Open Data Infrastructure for Digital Humanities in Finland

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Linked Data in Use : Sampo Portals on the Semantic Web

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National Linked Open Data Infrastructure for Digital Humanities

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Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities (HELDIG) : Developing the Digital World Together

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Using the Semantic Web in digital humanities : Shift from data publishing to data-analysis and serendipitous knowledge discovery

This paper discusses a shift of focus in research on Cultural Heritage semantic portals, based on Linked Data, and envisions and proposes new directions of research. Three generations of portals are identified: Ten years ago the research focus in semantic portal development was on data harmonization, aggregation, search, and browsing ('first generation systems'). At the moment, the rise of Digital Humanities research has started to shift the focus to providing the user with integrated tools for solving research problems in interactive ways ('second generation systems'). This paper envisions and argues that the next step ahead to 'third generation systems' is based on Artificial Intelligence: future portals not only provide tools for the human to solve problems but are used for finding research problems in the first place, for addressing them, and even for solving them automatically under the constraints set by the human researcher. Such systems should preferably be able to explain their reasoning, which is an important aspect in the source critical humanities research tradition. The second and third generation systems set new challenges for both computer scientists and humanities researchers.Peer reviewe

Asiasanaston muuttaminen ontologiaksi : Yleinen suomalainen ontologia esimerkkinä FinnONTO-mallin hankkeesta

Tämän raportin tavoitteena on edistää tätä työtä kiteyttämällä ja dokumentoimalla suomen kielellä niitä periaatteita, joita FinnONTO-hankkeessa kehitettiin suomalaisten asiasanastojen muuttamisesta semanttisen webin ontologioiksi, sekä tästä työstä saatuja kokemuksia. Esimerkkinä periaatteiden soveltamisesta käytäntöön, esitellään tapaus-tutkimuksena Yleisen Suomalaisen Asiasanaston YSA muunnosprosessia Yleiseksi Suomalaiseksi Ontologiaksi YSO, joka muodostaa KOKO-ontologian ylärakenteen ja tärkeimmän komponenti

Extracting Genealogical Networks of Linked Data from Biographical Texts

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Linked Open Data Service about Historical Finnish Academic People in 1640–1899

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Knowledge-based Relational Search in Cultural Heritage Linked Data

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Reconciling and Using Historical Person Registers as Linked Open Data in the AcademySampo Portal and Data Service

This paper presents a method for extracting and reassembling a genealogical network automatically from a biographical register of historical people. The method is applied to a dataset of short textual biographies about all 28 000 Finnish and Swedish academic people educated in 1640-1899 in Finland. The aim is to connect and disambiguate the relatives mentioned in the biographies in order to build a continuous, genealogical network, which can be used in Digital Humanities for data and network analysis of historical academic people and their lives. An artificial neural network approach is presented for solving a supervised learning task to disambiguate relatives mentioned in the register descriptions using basic biographical information enhanced with an ontology of vocations and additional occasionally sparse genealogical information. Evaluation results of the record linkage are promising and provide novel insights into the problem of historical people register reconciliation. The outcome of the work has been used in practise as part of the in-use AcademySampo portal and linked open data service, a new member in the Sampo series of cultural heritage applications for Digital Humanities.Peer reviewe