Reconciling and Using Historical Person Registers as Linked Open Data in the AcademySampo Portal and Data Service

Petri Leskinen; Eero Hyvönen

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-88361-4_42

Reconciling and Using Historical Person Registers as Linked Open Data in the AcademySampo Portal and Data Service

Petri Leskinen^*, Eero Hyvönen

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University of Helsinki

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This paper presents a method for extracting and reassembling a genealogical network automatically from a biographical register of historical people. The method is applied to a dataset of short textual biographies about all 28 000 Finnish and Swedish academic people educated in 1640–1899 in Finland. The aim is to connect and disambiguate the relatives mentioned in the biographies in order to build a continuous, genealogical network, which can be used in Digital Humanities for data and network analysis of historical academic people and their lives. An artificial neural network approach is presented for solving a supervised learning task to disambiguate relatives mentioned in the register descriptions using basic biographical information enhanced with an ontology of vocations and additional occasionally sparse genealogical information. Evaluation results of the record linkage are promising and provide novel insights into the problem of historical people register reconciliation. The outcome of the work has been used in practise as part of the in-use AcademySampo portal and linked open data service, a new member in the Sampo series of cultural heritage applications for Digital Humanities.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Semantic Web – ISWC 2021 - 20th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2021, Proceedings
Editors	Andreas Hotho, Eva Blomqvist, Stefan Dietze, Achille Fokoue, Ying Ding, Payam Barnaghi, Armin Haller, Mauro Dragoni, Harith Alani
Publisher	SPRINGER
Pages	714-730
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-88360-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88361-4_42
Publication status	Published - 2021
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	International Semantic Web Conference - Virtual, Online Duration: 24 Oct 2021 → 28 Oct 2021 Conference number: 20

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Publisher	Springer
Volume	12922 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Conference	International Semantic Web Conference
Abbreviated title	ISWC
City	Virtual, Online
Period	24/10/2021 → 28/10/2021

Keywords

Biographies
Data reconciling
Digital humanities
Linked data

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Leskinen, P., & Hyvönen, E. (2021). Reconciling and Using Historical Person Registers as Linked Open Data in the AcademySampo Portal and Data Service. In A. Hotho, E. Blomqvist, S. Dietze, A. Fokoue, Y. Ding, P. Barnaghi, A. Haller, M. Dragoni, & H. Alani (Eds.), The Semantic Web – ISWC 2021 - 20th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2021, Proceedings (pp. 714-730). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 12922 LNCS). SPRINGER. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88361-4_42

Leskinen, Petri ; Hyvönen, Eero. / Reconciling and Using Historical Person Registers as Linked Open Data in the AcademySampo Portal and Data Service. The Semantic Web – ISWC 2021 - 20th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2021, Proceedings. editor / Andreas Hotho ; Eva Blomqvist ; Stefan Dietze ; Achille Fokoue ; Ying Ding ; Payam Barnaghi ; Armin Haller ; Mauro Dragoni ; Harith Alani. SPRINGER, 2021. pp. 714-730 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Leskinen, P & Hyvönen, E 2021, Reconciling and Using Historical Person Registers as Linked Open Data in the AcademySampo Portal and Data Service. in A Hotho, E Blomqvist, S Dietze, A Fokoue, Y Ding, P Barnaghi, A Haller, M Dragoni & H Alani (eds), The Semantic Web – ISWC 2021 - 20th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2021, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 12922 LNCS, SPRINGER, pp. 714-730, International Semantic Web Conference, Virtual, Online, 24/10/2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88361-4_42

Reconciling and Using Historical Person Registers as Linked Open Data in the AcademySampo Portal and Data Service. / Leskinen, Petri ; Hyvönen, Eero.

The Semantic Web – ISWC 2021 - 20th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2021, Proceedings. ed. / Andreas Hotho; Eva Blomqvist; Stefan Dietze; Achille Fokoue; Ying Ding; Payam Barnaghi; Armin Haller; Mauro Dragoni; Harith Alani. SPRINGER, 2021. p. 714-730 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 12922 LNCS).

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Reconciling and Using Historical Person Registers as Linked Open Data in the AcademySampo Portal and Data Service

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