Analyzing and Visualizing Prosopographical Linked Data Based on Biographies

Petri Leskinen; Eero Hyvönen; Jouni Tuominen

Analyzing and Visualizing Prosopographical Linked Data Based on Biographies

Petri Leskinen, Eero Hyvönen, Jouni Tuominen

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This paper shows how faceted search on biographical data can be utilized as a flexible basis for filtering target groups of people and, in particular, how generic data analysis and visualizations tools can then be applied for solving prosopographical research questions based on the filtered data. This idea is demonstrated and evaluated in practice by presenting two application case studies: 1) linked data extracted from a printed registry of over 10 000 alumni (1867–1992) of the prominent Finnish high school Norssi, and 2) a knowledge graph extracted from 13 000 short biographies of significant Finnish people (from 3rd century to present times) in the National Biography of Finland. In both cases, the data is enriched by linking their entities with several other external datasets.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Biographical Data in a Digital World 2017
Editors	Antske Fokkens, Serge ter Braake, Ronald Sluijter, Paul Arthur, Eveline Wandl-Vogt
Publisher	RWTH Aachen University
Pages	39-44
Publication status	Published - 2018
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	Biographical Data in a Digital World - Ars Electronica Linz, Linz, Austria Duration: 6 Nov 2017 → 7 Nov 2017 Conference number: 2 https://sites.google.com/view/bd2017/home

Publication series

Name	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume	2119
ISSN (Electronic)	1613-0073

Workshop

Workshop	Biographical Data in a Digital World
Abbreviated title	BD
Country/Territory	Austria
City	Linz
Period	06/11/2017 → 07/11/2017
Internet address	https://sites.google.com/view/bd2017/home

Keywords

Biography
Data visualization
Linked data
Prosopography

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Leskinen, P. (Creator), Tamper, M. (Creator), Ikkala, E. (Creator), Rantala, H. (Creator), Tuominen, J. (Supervisor) & Hyvönen, E. (Supervisor), Linked Data Finland, 27 Sept 2018
https://seco.cs.aalto.fi/projects/biografiasampo/
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Leskinen, P , Hyvönen, E & Tuominen, J 2018, Analyzing and Visualizing Prosopographical Linked Data Based on Biographies. in A Fokkens, S ter Braake, R Sluijter, P Arthur & E Wandl-Vogt (eds), Biographical Data in a Digital World 2017. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 2119, RWTH Aachen University, pp. 39-44, Biographical Data in a Digital World, Linz, Austria, 06/11/2017. <http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2119/paper7.pdf>

Analyzing and Visualizing Prosopographical Linked Data Based on Biographies. / Leskinen, Petri ; Hyvönen, Eero ; Tuominen, Jouni.
Biographical Data in a Digital World 2017. ed. / Antske Fokkens; Serge ter Braake; Ronald Sluijter; Paul Arthur; Eveline Wandl-Vogt. RWTH Aachen University, 2018. p. 39-44 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2119).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

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Analyzing and Visualizing Prosopographical Linked Data Based on Biographies

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