Gravsearch: Transforming SPARQL to query humanities data

Schweizer, Tobias; Geer, Benjamin

doi:10.3233/sw-200386

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“…Gravsearch, but this has to be used within the Knora software package (Schweizer and Geer 2021). §101 More generally, the workshop resulted in a better understanding of how querying data in a computational context works.…”

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“…Some Linked Open Data triple stores containing humanities data offer a public SPARQL endpoint, such as the Getty Vocabularies endpoint and the Wikidata endpoint (http://vocab.getty.edu/sparql; https://query.wikidata.org/sparql). §10 SPARQL has something of a reputation for being difficult to learn, however, and appears to have been little used by humanities researchers-or at least rarely promoted to them as an active tool for digital humanities projects(Schweizer and Geer 2021).There are few previous specific evaluations of SPARQL in a digital humanities setting. (One exception is: Ichinose et al 2014.…”

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Medieval Manuscripts and Their Migrations: Using SPARQL to Investigate the Research Potential of an Aggregated Knowledge Graph

Wijsman

Burrows

Cleaver

et al. 2022

Digital Medievalist

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Although the RDF query language SPARQL has a reputation for being opaque and difficult for traditional humanists to learn, it holds great potential for opening up vast amounts of Linked Open Data to researchers willing to take on its challenges. This is especially true in the field of premodern manuscripts studies as more and more datasets relating to the study of manuscript culture are made available online. This paper explores the results of a two-year long process of collaborative learning and knowledge transfer between the computer scientists and humanities researchers from the Mapping Manuscript Migrations (MMM) project to learn and apply SPARQL to the MMM dataset. The process developed into a wider investigation of the use of SPARQL to analyse the data, refine research questions, and assess the research potential of the MMM aggregated dataset and its Knowledge Graph. Through an examination of a series of six SPARQL query case studies, this paper will demonstrate how the process of learning and applying SPARQL to query the MMM dataset returned three important and unexpected results: 1) a better understanding of a complex and imperfect dataset in a Linked Open Data environment, 2) a better understanding of how manuscript description and associated data involving the people and institutions involved in the production, reception, and trade of premodern manuscripts needs to be presented to better facilitate computational research, and 3) an awareness of need to further develop data literacy skills among researchers in order to take full advantage of the wealth of unexplored data now available to them in the Semantic Web.

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Medieval Manuscripts and Their Migrations: Using SPARQL to Investigate the Research Potential of an Aggregated Knowledge Graph

Wijsman

Burrows

Cleaver

et al. 2022

Digital Medievalist

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A review of reasoning characteristics of RDF‐based Semantic Web systems

Colucci,

Donini,

Di Sciascio

2024

WIREs Data Min & Knowl

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Presented as a research challenge in 2001, the Semantic Web (SW) is now a mature technology, used in several cross‐domain applications. One of its key benefits is a formal semantics of its RDF data format, which enables a system to validate data, infer implicit knowledge by automated reasoning, and explain it to a user; yet the analysis presented here of 71 RDF‐based SW systems (out of which 17 reasoners) reveals that the exploitation of such semantics varies a lot among all SW applications. Since the simple enumeration of systems, each one with its characteristics, might result in a clueless listing, we borrow from Software Engineering the idea of maturity model, and organize our classification around it. Our model has three orthogonal dimensions: treatment of blank nodes, degree of deductive capabilities, and explanation of results. For each dimension, we define 3–4 levels of increasing exploitation of semantics, corresponding to an increasingly sophisticated output in that dimension. Each system is then classified in each dimension, based on its documentation and published articles. The distribution of systems along each dimension is depicted in the graphical abstract. We deliberately exclude resources consumption (time and space) since it is a dimension not peculiar to SW.This article is categorized under: Fundamental Concepts of Data and Knowledge > Knowledge Representation Fundamental Concepts of Data and Knowledge > Explainable AI

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Semantic precision: crafting RDF-based digital editions for unveiling the layers of historical correspondence

Alassi,

Rosenthaler

2024

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

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This article proposes that Resource Description Framework (RDF) technology is well suited for representing and storing inherently connected epistolary data. We justify this proposition by creating an RDF-based digital edition of the correspondence of members of the Bernoulli dynasty and Leonhard Euler and depicting the benefits this type of edition provides, which are hardly achievable otherwise. We describe the ontologies defined to fully represent letters and illustrate how we formulated letters’ historical, scientific content, rich with mathematical formulae, markups, figures, and references, as RDF statements to facilitate complex queries common in the humanities field. Next, we outline the tools we developed for presenting these editions in an efficient and user-friendly form, hiding the complexity of the data structure from non-technical users while offering sophisticated analysis features to explore atoms of knowledge and their relations. Additionally, since the citability and durability of the studied digital sources play a crucial role for scholars who publish research on the editions, we explain the steps we undertook to ensure the sustainability of the RDF-based editions and to offer persistent citation possibility.

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Gravsearch: Transforming SPARQL to query humanities data

Cited by 3 publications

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Medieval Manuscripts and Their Migrations: Using SPARQL to Investigate the Research Potential of an Aggregated Knowledge Graph

Medieval Manuscripts and Their Migrations: Using SPARQL to Investigate the Research Potential of an Aggregated Knowledge Graph

A review of reasoning characteristics of RDF‐based Semantic Web systems

Semantic precision: crafting RDF-based digital editions for unveiling the layers of historical correspondence

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