Integrating Historical Person Registers as Linked Open Data in the WarSampo Knowledge Graph

Mikko Koho; Petri Leskinen; Eero Hyvönen

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-59833-4_8

Integrating Historical Person Registers as Linked Open Data in the WarSampo Knowledge Graph

Mikko Koho, Petri Leskinen, Eero Hyvönen

University of Helsinki

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Semantic data integration from heterogeneous, distributed data silos enables Digital Humanities research and application development employing a larger, mutually enriched and interlinked knowledge graph. However, data integration is challenging, involving aligning the data models and reconciling the concepts and named entities, such as persons and places. This paper presents a record linkage process to reconcile person references in different military historical person registers with structured metadata. The information about persons is aggregated into a single knowledge graph. The process was applied to reconcile three person registers of the popular semantic portal "WarSampo -- Finnish World War 2 on the Semantic Web". The registers contain detailed information about some 100,000 people and are individually maintained by domain experts. Thus, the integration process needs to be automatic and adaptable to changes in the registers. An evaluation of the record linkage results is promising and provides some insight into military person register reconciliation in general.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Semantic Systems. In the Era of Knowledge Graphs - 16th International Conference on Semantic Systems, SEMANTiCS 2020, Proceedings
Subtitle of host publication	In the Era of Knowledge Graphs. SEMANTiCS 2020
Editors	Eva Blomqvist, Paul Groth, Victor de Boer, Tassilo Pellegrini, Mehwish Alam, Tobias Käfer, Peter Kieseberg, Sabrina Kirrane, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Harshvardhan J. Pandit
Publisher	Springer
Pages	118-126
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-59833-4
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-59832-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59833-4_8
Publication status	Published - 27 Oct 2020
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	International Conference on Semantic Systems - Amsterdam, Netherlands Duration: 7 Sept 2020 → 10 Sept 2020

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer
Volume	12378
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Semantic Systems
Abbreviated title	SEMANTICS
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Amsterdam
Period	07/09/2020 → 10/09/2020

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Koho, M., Leskinen, P., & Hyvönen, E. (2020). Integrating Historical Person Registers as Linked Open Data in the WarSampo Knowledge Graph. In E. Blomqvist, P. Groth, V. D. Boer, T. Pellegrini, M. Alam, T. Käfer, P. Kieseberg, S. Kirrane, A. Meroño-Peñuela, & H. J. Pandit (Eds.), Semantic Systems. In the Era of Knowledge Graphs - 16th International Conference on Semantic Systems, SEMANTiCS 2020, Proceedings: In the Era of Knowledge Graphs. SEMANTiCS 2020 (pp. 118-126). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 12378). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59833-4_8

Koho, Mikko ; Leskinen, Petri ; Hyvönen, Eero. / Integrating Historical Person Registers as Linked Open Data in the WarSampo Knowledge Graph. Semantic Systems. In the Era of Knowledge Graphs - 16th International Conference on Semantic Systems, SEMANTiCS 2020, Proceedings: In the Era of Knowledge Graphs. SEMANTiCS 2020. editor / Eva Blomqvist ; Paul Groth ; Victor de Boer ; Tassilo Pellegrini ; Mehwish Alam ; Tobias Käfer ; Peter Kieseberg ; Sabrina Kirrane ; Albert Meroño-Peñuela ; Harshvardhan J. Pandit. Springer, 2020. pp. 118-126 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Koho, M, Leskinen, P & Hyvönen, E 2020, Integrating Historical Person Registers as Linked Open Data in the WarSampo Knowledge Graph. in E Blomqvist, P Groth, VD Boer, T Pellegrini, M Alam, T Käfer, P Kieseberg, S Kirrane, A Meroño-Peñuela & HJ Pandit (eds), Semantic Systems. In the Era of Knowledge Graphs - 16th International Conference on Semantic Systems, SEMANTiCS 2020, Proceedings: In the Era of Knowledge Graphs. SEMANTiCS 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 12378, Springer, pp. 118-126, International Conference on Semantic Systems, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 07/09/2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59833-4_8

Integrating Historical Person Registers as Linked Open Data in the WarSampo Knowledge Graph. / Koho, Mikko; Leskinen, Petri ; Hyvönen, Eero.
Semantic Systems. In the Era of Knowledge Graphs - 16th International Conference on Semantic Systems, SEMANTiCS 2020, Proceedings: In the Era of Knowledge Graphs. SEMANTiCS 2020. ed. / Eva Blomqvist; Paul Groth; Victor de Boer; Tassilo Pellegrini; Mehwish Alam; Tobias Käfer; Peter Kieseberg; Sabrina Kirrane; Albert Meroño-Peñuela; Harshvardhan J. Pandit. Springer, 2020. p. 118-126 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 12378).

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