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

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

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“…However, the applications also raise new questions and problems of source criticism regarding the quality of the automatically extracted content and semantic interpretation of the networks [15]. It is clear, for example, that the people selected in the dictionary not necessarily constitute a homogeneous prosopographical group but were selected by the editors, and people mentioned in the texts reflect the decisions made by the authors and the sources they have used.…”

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“…Related Work Representing and analyzing biographical data is a new research and application field [15,36]. The network analysis based on biographical data has been studied in [38,19,3] where networks were created using a variety methods to extract named entities and their relations from text.…”

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“…In addition, the sociocentric network analysis allows the user to use facets (such as gender, vocation, birth and death places) to form groups of people and study their networks. To extend the network analysis tools, BiographySampo also includes a reference analysis view explaining the links, which is similar to KORP's 15 [2] keywords in context view but provides context for the edges in the network similarly to LinkedJazz's 16 [31] relationship view. Unlike in LinkedJazz, the view shows all relations and how a person is referenced throughout time to show how a person's work influences person's contemporaries and other generations of notable people.…”

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“…For example, in the biography of Jutta Urpilainen, the former Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen is mentioned because Urpilainen worked as the Minister of Finance in Katainen's Cabinet of Finland, but in the biography of Katainen, Urpilainen is not mentioned. It is important to keep in mind that these networks only give insight to who are considered by authors and their sources to be significant to the protagonist [15].…”

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“…BiographySampo 3 is a semantic portal that is based on a knowledge graph that has been created using natural language processing methods, linked data, and semantic web technologies [15,35]. The graph contains currently ca.…”

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Visualizing and Analyzing Networks of Named Entities in Biographical Dictionaries for Digital Humanities Research

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This paper shows how named entity extraction and network analysis can be used to examine biographies individually and in groups to aid historians in biographical and prosopographical research. For this purpose a reference network of 13100 biography entries in the collections of the Biographical Centre of the Finnish Literature Society was created, based on links between the biographies as well as automatically extracted named entities found in the texts. The data was published in a SPARQL endpoint as a Linked Data knowledge graph on top of which network analytic tools were created and analysis were done showing the usefulness of the approach in Digital Humanities. The reference graph has been utilized for network analysis to examine egocentric networks of individual persons as well as networks among groups of people in prosopography. The data and tools presented are in use in the new national semantic portal BiographySampo published in the autumn of 2018.

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Person‐Oriented Ontologies Analysis for Digital Humanities Collections from a Metadata Crosswalk Perspective

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McKay,

Buchanan

2023

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Mapping between different representations of similar data is a common challenge in digital humanities (DH). In practical DH collections, the ‘person’ is an essential and centric unit and other parts could link to the ‘person’ to form the knowledge base. However, there is still no general and useful person‐oriented ontology in DH community. Many practical DH projects have developed their own ontologies by DH experts, but these ontologies are not interoperable. Therefore, it is important to explore existing biographical ontologies and develop a comprehensive person‐oriented ontology for DH.Using the metadata crosswalk method, we examined the ontologies provided for persons in three DH collections to analyze how they map onto standard ontologies such as FOAF (friend of a friend). This paper uncovers a significant and consistent gap between standard biographical ontologies and those used in practical DH collections, arriving at a set of heterogeneous problems, including different granularities of metadata. Consequently, we propose three key person‐oriented ontological types of elements, drawing on this metadata crosswalk: basic biographical elements, relational elements, and explanatory elements (such as career, connected with role and time). This metadata crosswalk provides a foundation for future matching between person‐oriented ontologies and facilitates semantic interoperability between DH collections.

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Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection

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

Cited by 36 publications

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Visualizing and Analyzing Networks of Named Entities in Biographical Dictionaries for Digital Humanities Research

Visualizing and Analyzing Networks of Named Entities in Biographical Dictionaries for Digital Humanities Research

Person‐Oriented Ontologies Analysis for Digital Humanities Collections from a Metadata Crosswalk Perspective

Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection

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