Small Lives, Big Meanings. Expanding the Scope of Biographical Data through Entity Linkage and Disambiguation

TY - CHAP

T1 - Small Lives, Big Meanings. Expanding the Scope of Biographical Data through Entity Linkage and Disambiguation

AU - Petram, Lodewijk

AU - van Lottum, Jelle

AU - Koert, van, Rutger

AU - Derks, Sebastiaan

PY - 2018/6/25

Y1 - 2018/6/25

N2 - The Huygens institute for Dutch history and culture aims to facilitate and enhance collaborative research with and on biographical data. We give a brief outline of the Huygens ING digital biographical data policy, describe how we share our data with the world, and explain how we facilitate the exploration of similarities and interconnections between the Huygens data, external data collections and user- uploaded datasets, without imposing selection criteria. Finally, we present a use case that shows how our policy and infrastructure enable researchers to employ large collections of ambiguous biographical data, hitherto mainly used for genealogical reference, for addressing innovative, challenging research questions.

AB - The Huygens institute for Dutch history and culture aims to facilitate and enhance collaborative research with and on biographical data. We give a brief outline of the Huygens ING digital biographical data policy, describe how we share our data with the world, and explain how we facilitate the exploration of similarities and interconnections between the Huygens data, external data collections and user- uploaded datasets, without imposing selection criteria. Finally, we present a use case that shows how our policy and infrastructure enable researchers to employ large collections of ambiguous biographical data, hitherto mainly used for genealogical reference, for addressing innovative, challenging research questions.

M3 - Contribution to conference proceedings

VL - 2119

SP - 22

EP - 26

BT - Biographical Data in a Digital World 2017

ER -