Visualisation of 700 Years of Labour Conflicts in the Netherlands

TY - CONF

T1 - Visualisation of 700 Years of Labour Conflicts in the Netherlands

AU - Zervanou, Kalliopi

AU - Tykhonov, Vyacheslav

AU - van den Bosch, A.

AU - van der Heijden, Marien

PY - 2014/5/29

Y1 - 2014/5/29

N2 - Information about historical events typically lies in written sources, such as the newspapers of the time, and inthe works of historians, where this information is summarized, discussed, and analysed. Although these datasources are increasingly available online, they are mostly scattered across various archives, libraries andcollections. Even when this data is accessible, the sheer amount of information is no longer suited forconventional manual inspection and the people seeking this information online are not necessarily historyexperts. The system presented in this work attempts to address these challenges. The Strikes in the Netherlandssystem is a web-based, interactive system, which provides of a visual overview of linked aggregated data fromprimary and secondary historical resources, the Database of Labour Actions and the National Library of theNetherlands Databank of Daily Digital Newspapers. This browseable data overview is intended to supporthistorians and non-specialists in exploring and retrieving information available and in spotting significant datatrends across time and space that may in turn lead to new insights about historical events originally scatteredacross disparate sources.

AB - Information about historical events typically lies in written sources, such as the newspapers of the time, and inthe works of historians, where this information is summarized, discussed, and analysed. Although these datasources are increasingly available online, they are mostly scattered across various archives, libraries andcollections. Even when this data is accessible, the sheer amount of information is no longer suited forconventional manual inspection and the people seeking this information online are not necessarily historyexperts. The system presented in this work attempts to address these challenges. The Strikes in the Netherlandssystem is a web-based, interactive system, which provides of a visual overview of linked aggregated data fromprimary and secondary historical resources, the Database of Labour Actions and the National Library of theNetherlands Databank of Daily Digital Newspapers. This browseable data overview is intended to supporthistorians and non-specialists in exploring and retrieving information available and in spotting significant datatrends across time and space that may in turn lead to new insights about historical events originally scatteredacross disparate sources.

M3 - Paper

SP - 1

EP - 10

T2 - 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2014)

Y2 - 25 May 2014 through 29 May 2014

ER -