The Wind in Our Sails: Developing a Reusable and Maintainable Dutch Maritime History Knowledge Graph

Stijn Schouten; Victor de Boer; Lodewijk Petram; Marieke van Erp

doi:10.1145/3460210.3493548

The Wind in Our Sails: Developing a Reusable and Maintainable Dutch Maritime History Knowledge Graph

Stijn Schouten, Victor de Boer, Lodewijk Petram, Marieke van Erp

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Abstract

Digital sources are more prevalent than ever but effectively using them can be challenging. One core challenge is that digitized sources are often distributed, thus forcing researchers to spend time collecting, interpreting, and aligning different sources. A knowledge graph can accelerate research by providing a single connected source of truth that humans and machines can query. During two design-test cycles, we convert four data sets from the historical maritime domain into a knowledge graph. The focus during these cycles is on creating a sustainable and usable approach that can be adopted in other linked data conversion efforts. Furthermore, our knowledge graph is available for maritime historians and other interested users to investigate the daily business of the Dutch East India Company through a unified portal.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	K-CAP '21: Proceedings of the 11th on Knowledge Capture Conference
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	97-104
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-8457-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3460210.3493548
Publication status	Published - 02 Dec 2021

Keywords

database design
knowledge graph design
maritime history
VOC
Linked Open Data

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K-CAP '21: Proceedings of the 11th on Knowledge Capture Conference. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021. p. 97-104.

Research output: Chapter in book/volume › Contribution to conference proceedings › Scientific › peer-review

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