WarVictimSampo 1914–1922: A Semantic Portal and Linked Data Service for Digital Humanities Research on War History

Rantala, Heikki; Ikkala, Esko; Jokipii, Ilkka; Koho, Mikko; Tuominen, Jouni; Hyvönen, Eero

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-62327-2_33

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“…The data is now more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable as suggested by the FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship 5 . This paper extends our earlier demo [20] and workshop papers [21] on the topic with description of the background of the project, it's underlying principles, data models, and technical aspects.…”

Section: Linked Open Data Approachmentioning

confidence: 74%

WarVictimSampo 1914–1922: A National War Memorial on the Semantic Web for Digital Humanities Research and Applications

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Jokipii

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J. Comput. Cult. Herit.

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This article presents the semantic portal and Linked Open Data service WarVictimSampo 1914–1922 about the war victims, battles, and prisoner camps in the Finnish Civil and other wars in 1914–1922. The system is based on a database of the National Archives of Finland and additional related data created, compiled, and linked during the project. The system contains detailed information about some 40,000 deaths extracted from several data sources and data about over 1,000 battles of the Civil War. A key novelty of WarVictimSampo 1914–1922 is the integration of ready-to-use Digital Humanities visualizations and data analysis tooling with semantic faceted search and data exploration, which allows, e.g., studying data about wider prosopographical groups in addition to individual war victims. The article focuses on demonstrating how the tools of the portal, as well as the underlying SPARQL endpoint openly available on the Web, can be used to explore and analyze war history in flexible and visual ways. WarVictimSampo 1914–1922 is a new member in the series of “Sampo” model-based semantic portals. The portal is in use and has had 23,000 users, including both war historians and the general public seeking information about their deceased relatives.

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Section: Linked Open Data Approachmentioning

confidence: 74%

WarVictimSampo 1914–1922: A National War Memorial on the Semantic Web for Digital Humanities Research and Applications

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Ikkala

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J. Comput. Cult. Herit.

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“…This is useful, e.g., if Python modules are needed for dynamic processing of SPARQL query results. An example of such extension is the Sparql2GraphServer API 23 which integrates SPARQL queries and their results with the NetworkX 24 Python package for advanced network analysis tasks that are not currently available for JavaScript.…”

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“…In this section experiences of applying the SAMPO-UI framework to create user interfaces are presented and reflected using the development work for the user interface of the WarVictimSampo 1914-1922 portal 43 [23] as a case study.…”

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Sampo-UI: A full stack JavaScript framework for developing semantic portal user interfaces

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This paper presents a new software framework, Sampo-UI, for developing user interfaces for semantic portals. The goal is to provide the end-user with multiple application perspectives to Linked Data knowledge graphs, and a two-step usage cycle based on faceted search combined with ready-to-use tooling for data analysis. For the software developer, the Sampo-UI framework makes it possible to create highly customizable, user-friendly, and responsive user interfaces using current state-of-the-art JavaScript libraries and data from SPARQL endpoints, while saving substantial coding effort. Sampo-UI is published on GitHub under the open MIT License and has been utilized in several internal and external projects. The framework has been used thus far in creating six published and five forth-coming portals, mostly related to the Cultural Heritage domain, that have had tens of thousands of end-users on the Web.

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WarVictimSampo 1914–1922: A Semantic Portal and Linked Data Service for Digital Humanities Research on War History

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WarVictimSampo 1914–1922: A National War Memorial on the Semantic Web for Digital Humanities Research and Applications

WarVictimSampo 1914–1922: A National War Memorial on the Semantic Web for Digital Humanities Research and Applications

Sampo-UI: A full stack JavaScript framework for developing semantic portal user interfaces

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