@inproceedings{hyvonen-et-al-snbf-2018,
  author =   {Eero Hyvönen and Petri Leskinen and Minna Tamper and Jouni Tuominen and Kirsi Keravuori},
  title =    {Semantic National Biography of Finland},
  year = {2018},
  month = {March},
  abstract = {This paper presents the vision of publishing and utilizing textual biographies
as Linked (Open) Data on the Semantic Web. As a case study, we publish
the live stories of the National Biography of Finland, created by the Finnish
Literature Society, as semantic, i.e., machine “understandable” metadata in a
SPARQL endpoint using the Linked Data Finland (LDF.fi) service. On top of the
data service various Digital Humanities applications are built. The applications
include searching and studying individual personal histories as well as historical
research of groups of persons using methods of prosopography. The biographical
data is enriched by extracting events from unstructured and semi-structured texts,
and by linking entities internally and to external data sources. A faceted semantic
search engine is provided for filtering groups of people from the data for prosopographical
research. An extension of the event-based CIDOC CRM ontology is
used as the underlying data model, where lives are seen as chains of interlinked
events populated from the data of the biographies and additional data sources,
such as museum collections, library databases, and archives.},
  publisher = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol-2084},
  url = {http://www.ceur-ws.org/Vol-2084/short12.pdf},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 3rd Conference (DHN 2018)},
  location = {Helsinki, Finland},
  pages = {372--385},
  OPTproject = {http://www.seco.tkk.fi/projects/biografiasampo, http://www.seco.tkk.fi/projects/severi, , http://www.seco.tkk.fi/projects/history/, http://www.seco.tkk.fi/projects/biographies/}
}