Navigating the Challenges of Deduplicating Actors in Historical Letter Exchanges

Senka Drobac; Petri Leskinen; Muhammad Faiz Wahjoe

doi:10.34190/eckm.24.2.1317

Navigating the Challenges of Deduplicating Actors in Historical Letter Exchanges

Senka Drobac, Petri Leskinen, Muhammad Faiz Wahjoe

University of Helsinki

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Abstract

This paper outlines ongoing research to standardize the metadata of letters from Finnish cultural heritage organizations to build a comprehensive archive for studying 19th-century epistolary culture in the Grand Duchy of Finland (1808/09-1917), as a part of the Constellations of Correspondence (CoCo) project. The challenge of deduplicating and reconciling actors and their associated information is an important problem faced in historical knowledge databases. The actors, e.g., senders and recipients of letters, can be individual people, couples, or families as well as organizations like institutions or companies. The deduplication described in this article has its focus on the individual people. The solutions we propose in this paper are significant for the development of the efficient and accurate approaches in this field.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Knowledge Management, ECKM 2023
Editors	Florinda Matos, Alvaro Rosa
Publisher	Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited
Pages	1694-1697
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781914587795
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.34190/eckm.24.2.1317
Publication status	Published - 2023
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	European Conference on Knowledge Management - Lisbon, Portugal Duration: 7 Sept 2023 → 8 Sept 2023 Conference number: 24

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management, ECKM
Volume	2
ISSN (Print)	2048-8963
ISSN (Electronic)	2048-8971

Conference

Conference	European Conference on Knowledge Management
Abbreviated title	ECKM
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Lisbon
Period	07/09/2023 → 08/09/2023

Keywords

Actor deduplication
Epistolary data
Historical correspondence
Knowledge graphs
Semantic web

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Drobac, S., Leskinen, P., & Wahjoe, M. F. (2023). Navigating the Challenges of Deduplicating Actors in Historical Letter Exchanges. In F. Matos, & A. Rosa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Knowledge Management, ECKM 2023 (pp. 1694-1697). (Proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management, ECKM; Vol. 2). Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited. https://doi.org/10.34190/eckm.24.2.1317

Drobac, Senka ; Leskinen, Petri ; Wahjoe, Muhammad Faiz. / Navigating the Challenges of Deduplicating Actors in Historical Letter Exchanges. Proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Knowledge Management, ECKM 2023. editor / Florinda Matos ; Alvaro Rosa. Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited, 2023. pp. 1694-1697 (Proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management, ECKM).

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Drobac, S , Leskinen, P & Wahjoe, MF 2023, Navigating the Challenges of Deduplicating Actors in Historical Letter Exchanges. in F Matos & A Rosa (eds), Proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Knowledge Management, ECKM 2023. Proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management, ECKM, vol. 2, Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited, pp. 1694-1697, European Conference on Knowledge Management, Lisbon, Portugal, 07/09/2023. https://doi.org/10.34190/eckm.24.2.1317

Navigating the Challenges of Deduplicating Actors in Historical Letter Exchanges. / Drobac, Senka ; Leskinen, Petri; Wahjoe, Muhammad Faiz.
Proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Knowledge Management, ECKM 2023. ed. / Florinda Matos; Alvaro Rosa. Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited, 2023. p. 1694-1697 (Proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management, ECKM; Vol. 2).

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Drobac S , Leskinen P, Wahjoe MF. Navigating the Challenges of Deduplicating Actors in Historical Letter Exchanges. In Matos F, Rosa A, editors, Proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Knowledge Management, ECKM 2023. Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited. 2023. p. 1694-1697. (Proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management, ECKM). doi: 10.34190/eckm.24.2.1317

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