- FIN-CLARIAH Research Infrastructure
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- Pieterjan Deckers, Eero Hyvönen, Michael Lewis, Eljas Oksanen, Heikki Rantala and Jouni Tuominen: ARCH-ON: A new ontological framework to describe archaeological objects for Digital Humanities research
- Eero Hyvönen, Annastiina Ahola, Petri Leskinen and Jouni Tuominen: Connecting Everything to Everything Else in a Cloud of Cultural Heritage Knowledge Graphs: SampoSampo Data Linking Service and Semantic Portal (Abstract)
- Petri Leskinen, Annastiina Ahola, Heikki Rantala, Jouni Tuominen and Eero Hyvönen: Consistency checking in a cloud of interlinked Cultural Heritage knowledge graphs – first results of using the SampoSampo data service and portal
- Annastiina Ahola, Petri Leskinen, Heikki Rantala, Jouni Tuominen and Eero Hyvönen: Using Large Language Models for searching explainable relations in a cloud of Cultural Heritage knowledge graphs: SampoSampo as a neuro-symbolic system
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ArtSampo
Finnish Art on the Semantic Web |
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ArtSampo is a collaborative Finnish Linked Open Data (LOD) infrastructure for publishing fine art collections on the Semantic Web and for facilitating Digital Humanities (DH) research. The infrastructure consists of a Knowledge Graph (KG) whose initial version was compiled from the metadata of the three art museums of the Finnish National Gallery. A semantic ArtSampo portal was built on top of the KG for searching, browsing, and analyzing the underlying data. The Finnish ontology infrastructure and international datasets are used for harmonizing and enriching the data. In addition, Generative AI boosted by Large Language Models are used for creating metadata.
More information about this project is available in the publications below and on the Finnish homepage.
Contact Person
Prof. Eero Hyvönen, Aalto University and Univerity of Helsinki (HELDIG)
Publications related to ArtSampo
2026
Annastiina Ahola, Lilli Peura, Rafael Leal, Heikki Rantala and Eero Hyvönen: Using generative AI and LLMs to enrich art collection metadata for searching, browsing, and studying art history in Digital Humanities. Humanizing Technology, Volume III - Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities (Silvia Lima, Gonçalves Araújo, Micaela Aguiar, Dalila Durães (ed.)), Peter Lang Verlag, March, 2026. In press. bib pdf
2025
Heikki Rantala, Eero Hyvönen, Eljas Oksanen and Jouni Tuominen: Opening Archaeological Public Finds Data with Semantic Web Technologies: Demonstrating FindSampo, CoinSampo, and PASampo. Digital Humanities in Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB 2025). Book of Abstracts, March, 2025. Demo paper. bib pdf link
Rafael Leal, Annastiina Ahola and Eero Hyvönen: Enriching Metadata with LLMs and Knowledge Graphs: Case Finnish Named Entity Linking. Digital Humanities in Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB 2025). Book of Abstracts, March, 2025. Long papers. bib pdf link
Annastiina Ahola, Eero Hyvönen, Heikki Rantala, Rafael Leal and Anne Kauppala: Digital Humanities on the Semantic Web for visual, literary, and performing arts: Demonstrating ArtSampo, BookSampo, and OperaSampo Linked Open Data services and semantic portals. Digital Humanities in Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB 2025). Book of Abstracts, March, 2025. Demo paper. bib pdf link
Rafael Leal, Annastiina Ahola, and Eero Hyvönen: Extracting Metadata from Texts and Images for Digital Humanities Research: Lessons Learned from Developing Linked Open Data Applications in Finland. 11, 2025. Submitted for review. bib
This chapter investigates how metadata can be enriched to improve the usability Linked Open Data (LOD) in Digital Humanities research. It reviews successive case studies based on semantic Sampo LOD services and portals in Finland that enable searching, browsing, and analysing parliamentary discussions, legislation and case law, art, historical letters, artefact collections, biographies, and enriched video content. The methodological framework utilises linked data technologies, ontologies, vector space models, Large Language Models (LLM), and Generative AI.
2024
Annastiina Ahola, Heikki Rantala and Eero Hyvönen: ArtSampo - Finnish art on the Semantic Web. The Semantic Web: ESWC 2024 Satellite Events, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, May 26 - 30, 2024, Proceedings, Springer, May, 2024. bib pdf
