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The Wind in Our Sails: Developing a Reusable and Maintainable Dutch Maritime History Knowledge Graph

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Stijn Schouten,

Victor de Boer,

Lodewijk Petram,

Marieke van ErpAuthors Info & Claims

K-CAP '21: Proceedings of the 11th Knowledge Capture Conference

Pages 97 - 104

https://doi.org/10.1145/3460210.3493548

Published: 02 December 2021 Publication History

Abstract

Digital sources are more prevalent than ever but effectively using them can be challenging. One core challenge is that digitized sources are often distributed, thus forcing researchers to spend time collecting, interpreting, and aligning different sources. A knowledge graph can accelerate research by providing a single connected source of truth that humans and machines can query. During two design-test cycles, we convert four data sets from the historical maritime domain into a knowledge graph. The focus during these cycles is on creating a sustainable and usable approach that can be adopted in other linked data conversion efforts. Furthermore, our knowledge graph is available for maritime historians and other interested users to investigate the daily business of the Dutch East India Company through a unified portal.

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Lisena PSchwabe Dvan Erp MTroncy RTullett WLeemans IMarx LEhrich S(2022)Capturing the Semantics of Smell: The Odeuropa Data Model for Olfactory Heritage InformationThe Semantic Web10.1007/978-3-031-06981-9_23(387-405)Online publication date: 29-May-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-031-06981-9_23

Index Terms

The Wind in Our Sails: Developing a Reusable and Maintainable Dutch Maritime History Knowledge Graph
1. Applied computing
  1. Arts and humanities
2. Information systems
  1. Data management systems
    1. Database design and models
      1. Graph-based database models

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K-CAP '21: Proceedings of the 11th Knowledge Capture Conference

December 2021

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ISBN:9781450384575

DOI:10.1145/3460210

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IBM Research Almaden, USA
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Center for Computational Biomedicine, Harvard Medical School, USA

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Lisena PSchwabe Dvan Erp MTroncy RTullett WLeemans IMarx LEhrich S(2022)Capturing the Semantics of Smell: The Odeuropa Data Model for Olfactory Heritage InformationThe Semantic Web10.1007/978-3-031-06981-9_23(387-405)Online publication date: 29-May-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-031-06981-9_23

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