Reassembling the Lives of Finnish Prisoners of the Second World War on the Semantic Web

Mikko Koho; Esko Ikkala; Eero Hyvönen

Reassembling the Lives of Finnish Prisoners of the Second World War on the Semantic Web

University of Helsinki

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Abstract

This paper presents the first results of a new, ninth application perspective for the semantic portal WarSampo – Finnish WW2 on the Semantic Web, based on a database of ca. 4 450 Finnish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union. Our key idea is to reassemble the life of each prisoner of war by using Linked Data, based on information about the person in different data sources. Using the enriched aggregated data, a biographical global “home page” for each prisoner of war can be created, that is more complete than information in individual data sources. The application perspective is targeted to the researchers of military history, to study and analyze the data in order to form new research questions or hypotheses, as well as to public in the large looking for information, e.g., about their relatives that were captured as prisoners of war. Employing the faceted search of the application perspective, prosopographical research on subgroups of prisoners is possible.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Third Conference on Biographical Data in a Digital World (BD 2019)
Publisher	CEUR
Pages	31-39
Number of pages	9
Publication status	Published - 12 Jun 2022
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	Biographical Data in a Digital World - Varna, Bulgaria Duration: 5 Sept 2019 → 6 Sept 2019 https://sites.google.com/view/bd2019/home?authuser=0

Publication series

Name	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Publisher	CEUR
Volume	3152
ISSN (Print)	1613-0073

Workshop

Workshop	Biographical Data in a Digital World
Abbreviated title	BD
Country/Territory	Bulgaria
City	Varna
Period	05/09/2019 → 06/09/2019
Internet address	https://sites.google.com/view/bd2019/home?authuser=0

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WarSampo Knowledge Graph
Koho, M. (Creator), Heino, E. (Creator), Ikkala, E. (Creator), Tamper, M. (Creator), Leskinen, P. (Creator), Dutruit, J. (Creator), Hyvönen, E. (Supervisor), Tuominen, J. (Supervisor), Mäkelä, E. (Supervisor) & Apajalahti, K. (Creator), Zenodo, 27 Nov 2015
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3431121, http://www.ldf.fi/dataset/warsa and 4 more links, http://ldf.fi/warsa/sparql, https://www.sotasampo.fi/en/, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3431121, https://zenodo.org/api/records/3611322 (show fewer)
Dataset

Uusi sovellus kokoaa yhteen tiedot yli 4 000 suomalaisesta sotavangista, mukana uutta tietoa vankikorteista ja kuulustelulomakkeista
Eero Hyvönen
29/11/2019
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media appearance
Vankikortteja, haastatteluja ja kuulustelulomakkeita – tiedot yli 4000 suomalaisesta sotavangista
Eero Hyvönen
29/11/2019
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media appearance

Historiantutkimuksen päivät
Hyvönen, E. (Chair), Nikkilä, R. (Organiser), Koho, M. (Organiser), Jokipii, I. (Organiser), Rantala, H. (Organiser) & Mäenpää, M. (Organiser)
25 Oct 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organization of a workshop, panel, session, tutorial or event

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Koho, M, Ikkala, E & Hyvönen, E 2022, Reassembling the Lives of Finnish Prisoners of the Second World War on the Semantic Web. in Proceedings of the Third Conference on Biographical Data in a Digital World (BD 2019). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 3152, CEUR, pp. 31-39, Biographical Data in a Digital World, Varna, Bulgaria, 05/09/2019. <http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3152/BD2019_paper_5.pdf>

Reassembling the Lives of Finnish Prisoners of the Second World War on the Semantic Web. / Koho, Mikko; Ikkala, Esko ; Hyvönen, Eero.
Proceedings of the Third Conference on Biographical Data in a Digital World (BD 2019). CEUR, 2022. p. 31-39 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 3152).

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Reassembling the Lives of Finnish Prisoners of the Second World War on the Semantic Web

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Uusi sovellus kokoaa yhteen tiedot yli 4 000 suomalaisesta sotavangista, mukana uutta tietoa vankikorteista ja kuulustelulomakkeista

Vankikortteja, haastatteluja ja kuulustelulomakkeita – tiedot yli 4000 suomalaisesta sotavangista

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