| About the FindSampo Portal |
FindSampo − Archaeological Finds on the Semantic Web is a system that provides information about Finnish archaeological finds made by the public, especially metal-detected finds. FindSampo encourages innovative and versatile use and study of archaeological finds data on the Web. The system includes a Linked Open Data service, available at the Linked Data Finland platform, and the FindSampo portal based on it. The data of the portal consists of information about archaeological object finds made by the public that have been catalogued to the archaeological collections of the Finnish Heritage Agency (FHA) from 2015 onwards. The finds data has been originally catalogued to the archaeological cataloguing service “Arkeologinen luettelointisovellus” of FHA.
The FindSampo portal is a public research prototype that was developed at the Aalto University, Semantic Computing Research Group (SeCo), as part of the SuALT project (2017-2021) in collaboration with the University of Helsinki (Department of Cultures) and Finnish Heritage Agency. The project was funded by the Academy of Finland.
More Information:
- Overview of the FindSampo concept and system
- FindSampo system homepage
- SuALT-project homepage
Publications
2025
Eero Hyvönen, Annastiina Ahola, Petri Leskinen and Jouni Tuominen: SampoSampo: A Portal for Studying Enriched Data and Semantic Connections on a Cultural Heritage Linked Open Data Cloud. Proceedings of ESWC 2025, supplement, poster and demo papers, Springer-verlag, 2025. Accepted, forth-coming. bib pdf
Eero Hyvönen, Annastiina Ahola, Petri Leskinen and Jouni Tuominen: Aggregating and Aligning Knowledge Graphs into a Global Service: SampoSampo System for Cross-cultural Data Search, Exploration, and Analysis. Digital Humanities in Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB 2025). Book of Abstracts., 2025. Short papers. bib pdf link
Eero Hyvönen, Annastiina Ahola, Petri Leskinen, Heikki Rantala and Jouni Tuominen: How to Create a Portal for Digital Humanities Research Using a Linked Open Data Cloud of Cultural Heritage Knowledge Graphs: Case SampoSampo. Proceedings: SemDH 2025 Second International Workshop of Semantic Digital Humanities, co-located with ESWC 2025, Portoroz, Slovenia, CEUR Workshop Proceedinga, 2025. Forth-coming. bib pdf
2024
Eero Hyvönen: Sampo-järjestelmien verkosto avaa linkitettyä kulttuuridataa tutkijoille ja kansalaisille semanttisessa webissä. Tieteessä tapahtuu, no. 2, 2024. bib pdf
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. bib pdf link
2023
Eero Hyvönen: Creating and Using a Linked Open Ontology and Data Infrastructure for Digital Humanities in Finland: Lessons Learned 2003-2023. Paper presented at the DARIAH-EU Annual Event 2023, Budapest, June, 2023. bib pdf
Eero Hyvönen: How to Create a National Cross-domain Ontology and Linked Data Infrastructure and Use It on the Semantic Web. Programming and Data Infrastructure in Digital Humanities, Book of Abstracts, pp. 7, High Performance Computing Centre, University of Évora, Portugal, March, 2023. bib link
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. bib pdf link
2022
Heikki Rantala, Eljas Oksanen and Eero Hyvönen: Harmonizing and Using Numismatic Linked Data in Digital Humanities Research and Application Development: Case DigiNUMA. The Semantic Web: ESWC 2022 Satellite Events, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 13384, pp. 26-30, Springer, July, 2022. bib pdf link
Heikki Rantala, Esko Ikkala, Jouni Tuominen, Eero Hyvönen, Ville Rohiola, Eljas Oksanen and Mikko Koho: FindSampo: A Linked Data Based Service for Analyzing and Disseminating Archaeological Finds. 6th Digital Humanities in Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference, poster paper, book of abstracts, pp. 118-119, March, 2022. bib link
Esko Ikkala, Eero Hyvönen, Heikki Rantala and Mikko Koho: Sampo-UI: A Full Stack JavaScript Framework for Developing Semantic Portal User Interfaces. Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 69-84, January, 2022. Online version published in 2021, print version in 2022. bib pdf link
Heikki Rantala, Esko Ikkala, Ville Rohiola, Mikko Koho, Jouni Tuominen, Eljas Oksanen, Anna Wessman and Eero Hyvönen: FindSampo: A Linked Data Based Portal and Data Service for Analyzing and Disseminating Archaeological Object Finds. The Semantic Web: ESWC 2022, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 13261, pp. 478-494, Springer, 2022. bib pdf link
2021
Eero Hyvönen, Heikki Rantala, Esko Ikkala, Mikko Koho, Jouni Tuominen, Babatunde Anafi, Suzie Thomas, Anna Wessman, Eljas Oksanen, Ville Rohiola, Jutta Kuitunen and Minna Ryyppö: Citizen Science Archaeological Finds on the Semantic Web: The FindSampo Framework. Antiquity, A Review of World Archaeology, vol. 95, no. 382, pp. e24, Cambridge University Press, August, 2021. bib pdf link
Eero Hyvönen: Löytösampo: kansalaisten arkeologiset löydöt semanttisessa webissä (FindSampo: Archaeological Finds on the Semantic Web). May, 2021. Järjestelmän lyhyt esittely. bib pdf
Babatunde Anafi: Representing and Using Temporal Linked Data in Semantic Cultural Heritage Portals. MSc Thesis (in English), University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science, March, 2021. bib link
2020
Eero Hyvönen: Semantic Sampo Portals for Digital Humanities Based on a National Linked Open Data Infrastructure. 2020. White paper, Aalto University, Semantic Computing Research Group (SeCo). bib pdf
Babatunde Anafi, Mikko Koho and Eero Hyvönen: Temporal Visualization and Data Analysis of Archaeological Finds: Case FindSampo. Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (CHNT 25), Museum Stadt Archäologie Wien, Nov, 2020. Posters. bib pdf
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
Pejam Hassanzadeh, Eero Hyvönen, Esko Ikkala, Jouni Tuominen, Suzie Thomas, Anna Wessman and Ville Rohiola: FindSampo Platform for Reporting and Studying Archaeological Finds Using Citizen Science. 3rd Workshop on Humanities in the Semantic Web (WHiSe 2020), pp. 33-40, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 2695, June, 2020. bib pdf link
2019
Suzie Thomas, Anna Wessman, Esko Ikkala, Jouni Tuominen, Mikko Koho and Eero Hyvönen: (co-)Creating a Sustainable Platform for Finland’s Archaeological Chance Finds: The Story of SuALT. Digital Heritage and Archaeology in Practice (Ethan Watrall and Lynne Goldstein (eds.)), University Press of Florida, December, 2019. Accepted. bib pdf
Pejam Hassanzadeh: FindSampo: A Citizen Science Platform for Archaeological Finds on the Semantic Web. MSc Thesis, Aalto University, School of Science, Finland, December, 2019. bib link
Anna Wessman, Suzie Thomas, Ville Rohiola, Mikko Koho, Esko Ikkala, Jouni Tuominen, Eero Hyvönen, Jutta Kuitunen, Helinä Parviainen, and Marianna Niukkanen: Citizen Science in Archaeology: Developing a Collaborative Web Service for Archaeological Finds in Finland. Transforming Heritage Practice in the 21st Century: Contributions from Community Archaeology (John Jameson and Sergiu Musteață (eds.)), pp. 337-352, Springer, July, 2019. bib pdf link
Anna Wessman, Suzie Thomas, Ville Rohiola, Jutta Kuitunen, Esko Ikkala, Jouni Tuominen, Mikko Koho and Eero Hyvönen: A Citizen Science Approach to Archaeology: Finnish Archaeological Finds Recording Linked Open Database (SuALT). DHN 2019 Digital Humanities in Nordic Countries. Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 4th Conference, pp. 469-478, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol-2364, Copenhagen, Denmark, March, 2019. bib pdf link
2018
Suzie Thomas, Anna Wessman, Jouni Tuominen, Mikko Koho, Esko Ikkala, Eero Hyvönen, Ville Rohiola and Ulla Salmela: SuALT: Collaborative Research Infrastructure for Archaeological Finds and Public Engagement through Linked Open Data. Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 3rd Conference (DHN 2018), Book of Abstracts, Helsinki, Finland, March, 2018. bib pdf
