Building a Linked Open Data Portal of War Victims in Finland 1914-1922

Heikki Rantala; Ilkka Jokipii; Mikko Koho; Esko Ikkala; Jouni Tuominen; Eero Hyvönen

Building a Linked Open Data Portal of War Victims in Finland 1914-1922

Heikki Rantala, Ilkka Jokipii, Mikko Koho, Esko Ikkala, Jouni Tuominen, Eero Hyvönen

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This paper presents results from a project that publishes data about the
war victims in Finland in 1914–22 as a Linked Open Data service and a portal of tools called WARVICTIMSAMPO 1914–22 to explore and analyze the data. At
the same time, the data is extended with new information and cleaned from mistakes when found. The project is based on the database War Victims of Finland 1914–22 (“Sotasurmat 1914–22”) of the National Archives of Finland and related data compiled during the project. This database contains some 40000 death records, most of which are due to the Finnish Civil War but some are related to the First World War and the Kindred Nations Wars. In addition to the war victims, our data includes information about 1200 battles of the Civil War and various prisoner camps. A key novelty of WARVICTIMSAMPO 1914–22 is the integration of ready-to-use Digital Humanities tooling with the data service, which allows, e.g., studying information about wider prosopographical groups in addition to individual victims. We show by examples how using the tools of the portal the data can be better explored and analyzed for research and education purposes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 5th Conference
Subtitle of host publication	Riga, Latvia, October 21-23, 2020
Publisher	CEUR
Pages	310-317
Number of pages	8
Volume	2612
Publication status	Published - Oct 2020
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries - Riga, Latvia Duration: 17 Mar 2020 → 20 Mar 2020 Conference number: 5

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Name	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Publisher	CEUR
Volume	2612
ISSN (Electronic)	1613-0073

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Conference	Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries
Abbreviated title	DHN
Country/Territory	Latvia
City	Riga
Period	17/03/2020 → 20/03/2020

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Rantala, H., Jokipii, I., Koho, M., Ikkala, E., Tuominen, J., & Hyvönen, E. (2020). Building a Linked Open Data Portal of War Victims in Finland 1914-1922. In Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 5th Conference: Riga, Latvia, October 21-23, 2020 (Vol. 2612, pp. 310-317). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2612). CEUR. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2612/short17.pdf

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Rantala, H, Jokipii, I, Koho, M, Ikkala, E , Tuominen, J & Hyvönen, E 2020, Building a Linked Open Data Portal of War Victims in Finland 1914-1922. in Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 5th Conference: Riga, Latvia, October 21-23, 2020. vol. 2612, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 2612, CEUR, pp. 310-317, Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries, Riga, Latvia, 17/03/2020. <http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2612/short17.pdf>

Building a Linked Open Data Portal of War Victims in Finland 1914-1922. / Rantala, Heikki; Jokipii, Ilkka; Koho, Mikko et al.
Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 5th Conference: Riga, Latvia, October 21-23, 2020. Vol. 2612 CEUR, 2020. p. 310-317 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2612).

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