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

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

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

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

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

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Abstract

This paper presents the semantic portal and Linked Open Data (LOD) service WarVictimSampo 1914–22 about the war victims, battles, and prisoner camps in the Finnish Civil and other wars. The system is based on a database of the National Archives of Finland and related data compiled during the project. The system contains detailed information about some 40 000 deaths extracted from several data sources, and data about prisoner camps and over 1000 battles of the Civil War. A key novelty of WarVictimSampo 1914–22 is the integration of ready-to-use Digital Humanities tooling with the data service, which allows, e.g., studying information about wider prosopographical groups in addition to individual victims. We demonstrate how the tools of the portal, as well as the underlying SPARQL endpoint, can be used to explore and analyze war history in flexible and visual ways. WarVictimSampo 1914–22 is a new member in the series of “Sampo” model based semantic portals. It was published in late 2019 and got 20 000 users in two weeks.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Semantic Web: ESWC 2020 Satellite Events
Editors	Andreas Harth, Valentina Presutti, Raphaël Troncy, Maribel Acosta, Axel Polleres, Javier D. Fernández, Josiane Xavier Parreira, Olaf Hartig, Katja Hose, Michael Cochez
Number of pages	6
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Publication date	2020
Pages	191-196
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-62326-5
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-62327-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62327-2_33
Publication status	Published - 2020
MoE publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings
Event	Extended Semantic Web Conference 2020 - Duration: 2 Jun 2020 → 4 Jun 2020 Conference number: 17

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Volume	12124

Fields of Science

113 Computer and information sciences

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Rantala, H., Ikkala, E., Jokipii, I., Koho, M., Tuominen, J., & Hyvönen, E. (2020). WarVictimSampo 1914–1922: A Semantic Portal and Linked Data Service for Digital Humanities Research on War History. In A. Harth, V. Presutti, R. Troncy, M. Acosta, A. Polleres, J. D. Fernández, J. Xavier Parreira, O. Hartig, K. Hose, & M. Cochez (Eds.), The Semantic Web: ESWC 2020 Satellite Events (pp. 191-196). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 12124). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62327-2_33

Rantala, Heikki ; Ikkala, Esko ; Jokipii, Ilkka et al. / WarVictimSampo 1914–1922: A Semantic Portal and Linked Data Service for Digital Humanities Research on War History. The Semantic Web: ESWC 2020 Satellite Events. editor / Andreas Harth ; Valentina Presutti ; Raphaël Troncy ; Maribel Acosta ; Axel Polleres ; Javier D. Fernández ; Josiane Xavier Parreira ; Olaf Hartig ; Katja Hose ; Michael Cochez. Cham : Springer, 2020. pp. 191-196 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Rantala, H, Ikkala, E, Jokipii, I, Koho, M, Tuominen, J & Hyvönen, E 2020, WarVictimSampo 1914–1922: A Semantic Portal and Linked Data Service for Digital Humanities Research on War History. in A Harth, V Presutti, R Troncy, M Acosta, A Polleres, JD Fernández, J Xavier Parreira, O Hartig, K Hose & M Cochez (eds), The Semantic Web: ESWC 2020 Satellite Events. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 12124, Springer, Cham, pp. 191-196, Extended Semantic Web Conference 2020, 02/06/2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62327-2_33

WarVictimSampo 1914–1922: A Semantic Portal and Linked Data Service for Digital Humanities Research on War History. / Rantala, Heikki; Ikkala, Esko; Jokipii, Ilkka et al.
The Semantic Web: ESWC 2020 Satellite Events. ed. / Andreas Harth; Valentina Presutti; Raphaël Troncy; Maribel Acosta; Axel Polleres; Javier D. Fernández; Josiane Xavier Parreira; Olaf Hartig; Katja Hose; Michael Cochez. Cham: Springer, 2020. p. 191-196 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 12124).

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