Paper Info
Title
WW1LOD: an application of CIDOC-CRM to World War 1 linked data.
Abstract
The CIDOC-CRM standard indicates that common events, actors, places and timeframes are important in linking together cultural material, and provides a framework for describing them. However, merely describing entities in this way in two datasets does not yet interlink them. To do that, the identities of instances still need to be either reconciled, or be based on a shared vocabulary. The WW1LOD dataset presented in this paper was created to facilitate both of these approaches for collections dealing with the First World War. For this purpose, the dataset includes events, places, agents, times, keywords, and themes related to the war, based on over ten different authoritative data sources from providers such as the Imperial War Museum. The content is harmonized into RDF, and published as a Linked Open Data service. While generally based on CIDOC-CRM, some modeling choices used also deviate from it where our experience dictated such. In the article, these deviations are discussed in the hope that they may serve as examples where CIDOC-CRM itself may warrant further examination. As a demonstration of use, the dataset and online service have been used to create a contextual reader application that is able to link together and pull in information related to WW1 from, e.g., 1914–1918 Online, Wikipedia, WW1 Discovery, Europeana and the Digital Public Library of America.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/s00799-016-0186-2
Int. J. on Digital Libraries
Keywords
Field
DocType
Applying CIDOC-CRM, Linked data, Modeling, Historical data, Dataset, Data interlinking
Data science,Data mining,Open data,Data modeling,World Wide Web,Knowledge representation and reasoning,Computer science,Semantic Web,Linked data,Vocabulary,First World,RDF
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
4
1432-1300
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.46
10
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eetu Mäkelä118823.10
Juha Törnroos230.46
Thea Lindquist351.83
Eero Hyvönen4843103.43