Title
Reassembling and Enriching the Life Stories in Printed Biographical Registers: Norssi High School Alumni on the Semantic Web.
Abstract
This paper presents the idea to enrich printed biographical person registers with linked data related to events that took place after the register was published. By transforming printed historical documents into structured data, semantic search to written texts can be provided for the reader. Even more importantly, life stories of historical persons can be extended based on data linking by extracting semantic structures from printed texts, and by combining this data with external datasets and data services. Such linking provides an enriched context for prosopographical research on people in the register, as well as an enhanced reading experience for anyone interested in reading the biographies. As a concrete case study, a register 1867-1992 of over 10 000 alumni of the prominent Finnish high school "Norssi" was transformed into RDF, was enriched by data linking, was published as a linked data service, and is provided to end users via a faceted search engine and browser for studying lives of historical persons and for prosopographical research.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/978-3-319-59888-8_9
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Field
DocType
Volume
World Wide Web,Semantic search,Faceted search,End user,Linked data,Semantic Web,Prosopography,Engineering,Data as a service,RDF
Conference
10318
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
3
0.43
References 
Authors
6
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eero Hyvönen1843103.43
Petri Leskinen271.28
Erkki Heino371.61
Jouni Tuominen417827.45
Laura Sirola530.43