Forging the Sampo on the Semantic Web based on Linked Data
Tutorial: How to create a Linked Open Data service and semantic portal for your Cultural Heritage data
Tuesday, March 4, 2024, 14:00–18:00 (13:00-17:00 CET)
DHNB 2025 Conference, Tarto, Estonia
Learning objectives
Since 2002, the Semantic Computing Research Group (SeCo) has been involved in 1) developing a national semantic web infrastructure and 2) the "Sampo series" of over 20 Linked Open Data (LOD) services and semantic portals on top of them in use on the Web. This work goes on today as part of the national DARIAH-FI research infrastructure program, pertaining to the LOD work package led by the SeCo group. The goal of this tutorial is to explain in practice how the models, tools, datasets, and portals developed can be used for creating new data services and applications for Digital Humanities research, based on one's own data available in different formats.
Program (tentative)
Introduction- 14:00–14:15 Why use Linked Open Data: Sampo model for creating LOD services and semantic portals
Eero Hyvönen
- 14:15–14:30 Metadata models and ontologies for knowledge representation
Jouni Tuominen
- 14:30–15:00 Creating LOD from databases
Annastiiina Ahola, Heikki Rantala - 15:00–15:30 Semantic enrichment: data linking, reasoning, and knowledge extraction from texts
Petri Leskinen and Rafael Leal - 15:30-15:45 Publishing Sampo data (dump), data service (LDF.fi), and portal on the Web
Jouni Tuominen
- 15:45-16:15 Break
- 16:15-16:45 Using the LOD service via SPARQL and Notebooks, data analysis, network analysis, and visualizations
Petri Leskinen
- 16:45-17:15 Creating a semantic portal easily using Sampo-UI
Annastiina Ahola, Heikki Rantala
- 17:15-17:45 Using the portal for Digital Humanities research: ParliamentSampo and other examples
Heikki Rantala - 17:45-18:00 Questions, discussion
More information
Free online video course: Linked Data Technologies for Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities: Introducing the Semantic Web in Video Lectures
See the project homepage for more detailed explanations of the underlying research.
Following two articles overview our research and lessons learned regarding 1) the national LOD infrastructure and 2) Sampo series of LOD services and semantic portals:
- Eero Hyvönen: How to Create a National Cross-domain Ontology and Linked Data Infrastructure and Use It on the Semantic Web. Semantic Web - Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, IOS Press, 2024. DOI: 10.3233/SW-243468.
- Eero Hyvönen: Digital Humanities on the Semantic Web: Sampo Model and Portal Series. Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 729-744, IOS Press, 2023.
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