Integrating Historical Person Registers as Linked Open Data in the WarSampo Knowledge Graph

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A4 Artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa

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2020-10-27

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Semantic Systems. In the Era of Knowledge Graphs - 16th International Conference on Semantic Systems, SEMANTiCS 2020, Proceedings: In the Era of Knowledge Graphs. SEMANTiCS 2020, pp. 118-126, Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; Volume 12378

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Semantic data integration from heterogeneous, distributed data silos enables Digital Humanities research and application development employing a larger, mutually enriched and interlinked knowledge graph. However, data integration is challenging, involving aligning the data models and reconciling the concepts and named entities, such as persons and places. This paper presents a record linkage process to reconcile person references in different military historical person registers with structured metadata. The information about persons is aggregated into a single knowledge graph. The process was applied to reconcile three person registers of the popular semantic portal "WarSampo -- Finnish World War 2 on the Semantic Web". The registers contain detailed information about some 100,000 people and are individually maintained by domain experts. Thus, the integration process needs to be automatic and adaptable to changes in the registers. An evaluation of the record linkage results is promising and provides some insight into military person register reconciliation in general.

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Koho, M, Leskinen, P & Hyvönen, E 2020, Integrating Historical Person Registers as Linked Open Data in the WarSampo Knowledge Graph . in E Blomqvist, P Groth, V D Boer, T Pellegrini, M Alam, T Käfer, P Kieseberg, S Kirrane, A Meroño-Peñuela & H J Pandit (eds), Semantic Systems. In the Era of Knowledge Graphs - 16th International Conference on Semantic Systems, SEMANTiCS 2020, Proceedings : In the Era of Knowledge Graphs. SEMANTiCS 2020 . Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 12378, Springer, pp. 118-126, International Conference on Semantic Systems, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 07/09/2020 . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59833-4_8