Towards Interoperable Network Ontologies for the Digital Humanities

Langmead, Alison; Otis, Jessica; Warren, Christopher N.; Weingart, Scott; Zilinksi, Lisa D.

doi:10.3366/ijhac.2016.0157

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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. In Bi-ographySampo, the networks were created using the named entity linking approach [28,26,25].…”

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“…The network analysis views were constructed to study individuals and groups of people. Several related works [38,31,19,3,5] and network analysis and visualization methods [27] have influenced the tools presented in this paper. The tools in BiographySampo extend traditional systems by adding user controls that can be used to scale and toggle the layout of the networks.…”

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“…Acknowledgments Our research was part of the Severi project 19 , funded mainly by Business Finland. Thanks to Mikko Kivelä for inspirational discussions and CSC IT Center for Science for computational resources.…”

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

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2019

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“…In [34], analytic visualizations were created based on U.S. Legislator registry data. The idea of biographical network analysis is related to the Six Degrees of Francis Bacon system 16 [33,54] that utilizes data of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. However, a novelty of our approach is to use faceted search for filtering out target groups for studying.…”

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Analyzing biography collections historiographically as Linked Data: Case National Biography of Finland

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Biographical collections are available on the Web for close reading. However, the underlying texts can also be used for data analysis and distant reading, if the documents are available as data. Such data is usable for creating intelligent user interfaces to biographical data, including Digital Humanities tooling for visualizations, data analysis, and knowledge discovery in biographical and prosopographical research. In this paper, we re-use biographical collection data from a historiographical perspective for analyzing the underlying collection. For example: What kind of people have been included in the collection? Does the language used for describing female biographees differ from that for men? As a case study, the Finnish National Biography, available as part of the Linked Open Data service and semantic portal BiographySampo – Finnish Biographies on the Semantic Web is used. The analyses show interesting results related to, e.g., how specific prosopographical groups, such as women or professional groups are represented and portrayed. Various novel statistics and network analyses of the biographees are presented. Our analyses give new insights to the editors of the National Biography as well as to researchers in biography, prosopography, and historiography. The presented approach can be applied also to similar biography collections in other countries.

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“…Lux and Cook [23] used the concept of weak ties in scientific exchange in the seventeenth century by contrasting the role of closed circles of academies in England and France and open networks of interactions that facilitated, e.g., the work of Dutch scientists. The small-world phenomena has also been studied on historical networks [24] in the "Six Degrees of Francis Bacon" project [25].…”

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Communication Now and Then: Analyzing the Republic of Letters as a Communication Network

Ureña-Carrión¹,

Leskinen²,

Tuominen³

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Huge advances in understanding patterns of human communication, and the underlying social networks where it takes place, have been made recently using massive automatically recorded data sets from digital communication, such as emails and phone calls. However, it is not clear to what extent these results on human behaviour are artefacts of contemporary communication technology and culture and if the fundamental patterns in communication have changed over history. This paper presents an analysis of historical epistolary metadata with the aim of comparing the underlying historical communication patterns with those of contemporary communication. Our work uses a new epistolary dataset containing metadata on over 150 000 letters sent between the 16th and 19th centuries. The analyses indicate striking resemblances between contemporary and epistolary communication network patterns, including dyadic interactions and ego-level behaviour. Despite these positive findings, certain aspects of the letter datasets are insufficient to corroborate other similarities or differences for these communication networks.

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Towards Interoperable Network Ontologies for the Digital Humanities

Cited by 13 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

Analyzing biography collections historiographically as Linked Data: Case National Biography of Finland

Communication Now and Then: Analyzing the Republic of Letters as a Communication Network

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