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Title: WarSampo Team: Eero Hyvönen Erkki Heino Esko Ikkala Mikko Koho Petri Leskinen Eetu Mäkelä Minna Tamper Jouni Tuominen
Short description:
WarSampo publishes massive collections of heterogeneous, distributed data about the WW2 on the Semantic Web. The datasets are harmonized using event-based modeling and are enriched semantically with each other’s contents and external data. WarSampo has two components: 1) WarSampo Linked Open Data service of over 9M triples for Digital Humanities research and for creating applications. 2) WarSampo Semantic Portal, based on the data service, allowing both historians and laymen to study war history and destinies of their family members in the war from 7 interlinked perspectives. The portal had nearly 20,000 visitors during the first few days after its publication.
(21 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5) You need to be a registered member to rate this.
Long description:
WHAT IS WARSAMPO? According to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel “we learn from history that we learn nothing from history”. The ultimate goal of WarSampo is to prove that he was wrong. We believe that peace can be promoted by making reliable data about the war openly available for everybody to learn. The WarSampo system and project is motivated and described at the home page http://seco.cs.aalto.fi/projects/sotasampo/en/ including links to additional videos, short descriptions of the datasets, of the modeling principles, and of the implementation. There is also a description of the underlying national consortium of the participating organizations in the initiative. WarSampo is part of the Centenary of Finland’s Inpendence 2017 programme, coordinated by the Prime Minister’s office.
LINKED OPEN DATA SERVICE AND APPLICATION PORTAL The WarSampo end-user portal is available at http://www.sotasampo.fi/en/ and the underlying Linked Open Data service at http://www.ldf.fi/dataset/warsa The data in use is in Finnish but the graphical user interface is available in English, too.
UNDERLYING RESEARCH WarSampo is based on rigorous scientific technological research that has been reported in 11 international papers and theses in 2015-2017. These publications (listed below) are available online at the end of the WarSampo homepage for more detailed descriptions of the system and its data:
PUBLICATIONS
2017 Eero Hyvönen: Cultural Heritage Linked Data on the Semantic Web: Three Case Studies Using the Sampo Model. 2017. Invited talk, VIII Encounter of Documentation Centres of Contemporary Art: Open Linked Data and Integral Management of Information in Cultural Centres. Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, October 19-20, 2016. (Submitted for publication)
Minna Tamper, Petri Leskinen, Esko Ikkala, Arttu Oksanen, Eetu Mäkelä, Erkki Heino, Jouni Tuominen, Mikko Koho and Eero Hyvönen: AATOS – a Configurable Tool for Automatic Annotation. Proceedings, Language, Technology and Knowledge 2017. June 19-20, Galway, Ireland, Springer-Verlag, February, 2017.
Erkki Heino, Minna Tamper, Eetu Mäkelä, Petri Leskinen, Esko Ikkala, Jouni Tuominen, Mikko Koho and Eero Hyvönen: Named Entity Linking in a Complex Domain: Case Second World War History. Proceedings, Language, Technology and Knowledge 2017. June 19-20, Galway, Ireland, Springer-Verlag, February, 2017.
2016 Petri Leskinen: Sotilashenkilöiden ja joukko-osastojen mallintaminen ja käyttö toimijaontologiana. MSc Thesis (in Finnish), Aalto University, School of Science, Degree Programme in Computer Science and Engineering, Dec, 2016.
Minna Tamper: Extraction of Entities and Concepts from Finnish Texts. MSc Thesis (in English), Aalto University, School of Science, Degree Programme in Computer Science and Engineering, Dec, 2016.
Esko Ikkala: Suomalainen historiallisten paikkojen ja karttojen ontologiapalvelu. MSc Thesis (in Finnish), Aalto University, School of Electrical Engineering, Degree Programme of Automation and Systems Technology, August, 2016.
Eero Hyvönen, Erkki Heino, Petri Leskinen, Esko Ikkala, Mikko Koho, Minna Tamper, Jouni Tuominen and Eetu Mäkelä: Publishing Second World War History as Linked Data Events on the Semantic Web. Proceedings of Digital Humanities 2016, short papers, pp. 571-573, Kraków, Poland, July, 2016.
Mikko Koho, Eero Hyvönen, Erkki Heino, Jouni Tuominen, Petri Leskinen and Eetu Mäkelä: Linked Death – Representing, Publishing, and Using Second World War Death Records as Linked Open Data. The Semantic Web: ESWC 2016 Satellite Events (Harald Sack, Giuseppe Rizzo, Nadine Steinmetz, Dunja Mladenić, Sören Auer and Christoph Lange (eds.)), Springer-Verlag, June, 2016.
Mikko Koho, Eero Hyvönen, Erkki Heino, Jouni Tuominen, Petri Leskinen and Eetu Mäkelä: Linked Death – Representing, Publishing, and Using Second World War Death Records as Linked Open Data. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Humanities in the Semantic Web (WHiSe), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May, 2016. Vol 1608.
Eero Hyvönen, Erkki Heino, Petri Leskinen, Esko Ikkala, Mikko Koho, Minna Tamper, Jouni Tuominen and Eetu Mäkelä: WarSampo Data Service and Semantic Portal for Publishing Linked Open Data about the Second World War History. The Semantic Web – Latest Advances and New Domains (ESWC 2016) (Harald Sack, Eva Blomqvist, Mathieu d Aquin, Chiara Ghidini, Simone Paolo Ponzetto and Christoph Lange (eds.)), Springer-Verlag, May, 2016.
2015 Eero Hyvönen, Jouni Tuominen, Eetu Mäkelä, Jérémie Dutruit, Kasper Apajalahti, Erkki Heino, Petri Leskinen and Esko Ikkala: Second World War on the Semantic Web: The WarSampo Project and Semantic Portal. Proceedings of the ISWC 2015 Posters & Demonstrations Track, CEUR-WS Proceedings, Bethlehem, PA, USA, October, 2015. Vol 1486.
Title: TALDIS. Time and Linked Data in Space Team: Richard Palmer
Short description:
TALDIS is a visualisation of linked data in space and time, using the data visualisation technique of Space-Time Cubes. This demo video uses D3.js and A-Frame to create the WebVR browsable experience of a sample set of data. With improved support for WebVR in browsers, techniques such as this provide ways for users to explore linked data, without having to be immediately confronted with writing SPARQL queries. This would let a user get a sense of the data and perhaps immediately see patterns and clusters that they could then query further using more traditional linked data querying methods.
(10 votes, average: 3.70 out of 5) You need to be a registered member to rate this.
ResearchSpace is an extensible collaborative research environment based exclusively on Linked Data but using the CIDOC CRM to provide the context and meaning required for scholarly knowledge building. ResearchSpace uses knowledge representation rather than cataloguing standards to help humanities researchers describe a far wider range of knowledge and provide a platform not just for reference but which can support digital research. The method of representation is independent of the software so data can be exported and preserved without loss of meaning. Tools include, Semantic Web search and faceting, Semantic Narratives, IIIF integration, clipboards supporting custom datasets and ontology based visualisation.
Country: United Kingdom
(47 votes, average: 4.34 out of 5) You need to be a registered member to rate this.
Annif is a statistical automated indexing tool for libraries, archives and museums. After feeding it a SKOS vocabulary and existing openly available metadata from the Finna search engine, it knows how to assign subjects for new documents. It also has a REST API and a mobile web app that can analyze physical documents such as books. With Annif, we can add semantics to documents in three languages using our own indexing vocabulary. If we win, we will make it easier for everyone to turn their existing metadata into a corpus and use it to perform automated subject indexing.
Country: Finland
(22 votes, average: 4.36 out of 5) You need to be a registered member to rate this.
Title: Tag The Web Team: Jerry Fernandes Medeiros, Bernardo Pereira Nunes
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The main purpose of this project is to create a universal classification on the Web based on the common sense rather than on a traditional classification system created by domain experts. That is, we believe it is easier to an ordinary user access and retrieve information from a Web created by people to people rather than by experts. The proposed method is a general purpose classification that is able to classify any text-based content on the Web, for instance, from scientific articles to even tweets. At the current stage, the proposed method is able to classify any content in English and can be accessed at http://www.TagTheWeb.com.br.
(84 votes, average: 4.44 out of 5) You need to be a registered member to rate this.
Title: Telemeta Team: Guillaume Pellerin Thomas Fillon Joséphine Simonnot Aude Da-Cruz-Lima Anas Ghrab (Tunisie)
Short description:
Since 2007, French ethnomusicologists and Parisson Company have joined their efforts to develop a collaborative web platform for managing and improve access to 40.000 digitized sound archives from the CNRS-Musée de l’Homme collections (http://archives.crem-cnrs.fr/). Today, 23.000 folk music recordings are on free access. This Multimedia Asset Management System is able to produce various visualizations, time-based annotations, semantic segmentation, in order to involve the local communities and the users.
(9 votes, average: 3.56 out of 5) You need to be a registered member to rate this.
This interface facilitates the creation of queries that normally require a high level of complexity, by making the most of user’s embodied cognition. While the back engine of this tool works with Europeana Aggregated Fields as well as diverse Parser Syntax to connect ideas through JavaScript and JQuery, the user gets to create intricate queries to explore the digital collections in a simple and engaging environment, reducing substantially the difficulties that usually accompany querying languages and large datasets. The objects used in the interface are paper models that can be printed and built by users, encouraging creation and co-creation.
(92 votes, average: 4.11 out of 5) You need to be a registered member to rate this.
Title: City-Zen Team: Alex C. Olivieri, Shaban Shabani, Maria Sokhn, Basma MakhloufVideo Player00:0005:00
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City-Zen is an interactive spatio-temporal knowledge-browsing platform that aims to valorise cultural heritages. Considering the explosive growth of information, data and knowledge sharing can ensure valuable interdisciplinary applications. While many organizations propose relevant data sets, they are hardly accessed, analysed and reused because of the formats inconsistency and the inappropriate information browsing and visualization. The goal of the project is to valorise the existing cultural heritage through a citizen centric design platform. The use case of this project involves a user willing to discover the history of a region and to embark in a cultural journey in the past.
(146 votes, average: 4.18 out of 5) You need to be a registered member to rate this.
Title: Fishing in the Data Ocean Team: Academia Sinica Center for Digital Cultures (ASCDC)
Short description:
The TaiUC (Taiwan Digital Archives Union Catalogue), similar to the Europeana, an online portal with over 5 million digital objects, has collected digitized objects over the past 15 years from more than 100 libraries, archives, museums, academic institutions, and government agencies in the whole Taiwan, such as the National Central Library, Academia Historica and National Palace Museum. The collection includes books, newspapers, artworks, photos, specimen and sounds. Most of the metadata and content are in Chinese and Asia Culture oriented. Academia Sinica Center for Digital Cultures (ASCDC) is now in charge of the sustainable operation. The presentation aims to report how we adopt Lined Open Data (LOD) approach to publish these structure data, in the light of the Fish Datasets in our first stage of LOD project, to make metadata and its digital objects get connected with related resources in the world.
(179 votes, average: 4.36 out of 5) You need to be a registered member to rate this.
