Sampo Model and Series of Semantic Portals

This page presents the ”Sampo” model and series of Linked Open Data services and semantic portals, based on a 1) shared model and framework and a 2) National SemanticWeb Infrastructure for Digital Humanities in Finland. Sampo portals, such as CultureSampo, BookSampo, WarSampo, BiographySampo, NameSampo, and WarVictimSampo 1914–1922, have had millions of end users on the Web in total, suggesting feasibility and sustainability of the approach developed. Several new Sampos are currently under development.

See the publictions below for more information about the Sampo model and the Sampo series of semantic portals based on it.

Table: Published and forth-coming semantic portals that have been implemented using the Sampo model (information updated 04/2020)

Portal	URL	Year	Domain	Unique users	Knowledge graph triple count or size	Faceted search engine	User interface framework	Primary data owner
Internal portals
MuseumFinland	museosuomi.fi	2004	Museum collections	34 000	210 986	OntoViews	Apache Cocoon	National Museum of Finland
CultureSampo	kulttuurisampo.fi	2008	GLAM collections	89 000	11 400 000	Custom	Tapestry	Over 20 Finnish Memory Organizations
HealthFinland	-	2008	Health information	Unknown	6 000 documents	Custom	Tapestry	Finnish institute for health and welfare
TravelSampo	-	2011	Cultural travel	Unknown	17 000 000 places	Custom	Drupal and jQuery	Several Finnish Memory Organizations
WarSampo	sotasampo.fi/en	2015	Military history	655 000	14 322 426	SPARQL Faceter	AngularJS	National Archives of Finland
BiographySampo	biografiasampo.fi	2018	Biographies	29000	5 373 496	SPARQL Faceter	AngularJS	Finnish Literature Society
NameSampo	nimisampo.fi	2019	Place names	35 000	241 068 456	Sampo-UI		Institute for the Languages of Finland
WarVictimSampo 1914–1922	sotasurmat.narc.fi	2019	Military history	21 000	9 815 265	Sampo-UI		National Archives of Finland
Mapping Manuscript Migrations	mappingmanuscriptmigrations.org	2020	Pre-modern manuscripts	2 200	22 472 633	Sampo-UI		Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Bodleian Libraries, and Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes
LawSampo	-	2020?	Law	TBA	TBA	Sampo-UI		Ministry of Justice, Finland
AcademySampo	-	2020?	Finnish Academic People 1640–1899	TBA	TBA	Sampo-UI		University of Helsinki, Finland
HistorySampo	-	2020?	Historical events	TBA	TBA	Sampo-UI		Agricola Network of Historians
FindSampo	-	2021?	Archaeology	TBA	TBA	Sampo-UI		Finnish Heritage Agency
ParliamentSampo	-	2022?	Parliamentary data	TBA	TBA	Sampo-UI		Parliament of Finland
External portals
BookSampo	kirjasampo.fi	2011	Finnish fiction literature	1 211 640 in 2019	8 313 263	None	Drupal	Finnish public library consortium
Norske stadnamn	toponymi.spraksamlingane.no	2019	Place names	Unknown	217 353 538	Sampo-UI		Norwegian Mapping Authority
Staff portal	-	2019	Human resources	Unknown	Unknown	Sampo-UI		Lingsoft Ltd.

Contact

Professor Eero Hyvönen
Aalto University and University of Helsinki (HELDIG)
first.last [ at ] aalto.fi

Publications about the Sampo Model and Sampo Series as a Whole

2020

Chris A. Sula, Kalani Craig, Michelle Dalmu, Alex Humphreys, Eero Hyvönen, Hannah L. Jacobs, Humphrey Keah, Joseph Kiplang at, Thea Lindquist, Nicholas Weber, Scott B. Weingart: Infrastructures of Digital Humanities. 83rd Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting, proceedings, Association for Information Science and Technology, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, October, 2020. bib

Eero Hyvönen: Sampo Model and Semantic Portals for Digital Humanities on the Semantic Web. DHN 2020 Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries. Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 5th Conference, pp. 373-378, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 2612, Riga, Latvia, October, 2020. bib pdf link

Eero Hyvönen: Tekoäly ja semanttinen web tarjoavat huikeat mahdollisuudet suurten aineistojen hallintaan. Kansallisarkiston strategia 2025, näkökulmia tulevaan (Jussi Nuorteva, Päivi Happonen (ed.)), pp. 20-21, Kansallisarkisto, Helsinki, May, 2020. bib link

Esko Ikkala, Eero Hyvönen, Heikki Rantala and Mikko Koho: Sampo-UI: A Full Stack JavaScript Framework for Developing Semantic Portal User Interfaces. May, 2020. Submitted. bib pdf link

Eero Hyvönen: Semantic Sampo Portals for Digital Humanities Based on a National Linked Open Data Infrastructure. March, 2020. Submitted. bib pdf

Eero Hyvönen: Using the Semantic Web in Digital Humanities: Shift from Data Publishing to Data-analysis and Serendipitous Knowledge Discovery. Semantic Web, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 187-193, 2020. bib pdf