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Using Linked Data for Prosopographical Research of Historical Persons: Case U.S. Congress Legislators

Authors : Goki Miyakita, Petri Leskinen, Eero Hyvönen

Published in: Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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This paper shows how biographical registries can be represented as Linked Data, enriched by data linking to related data sources, and used in Digital Humanities. As a use case, a database of 11 987 historical U.S. Congress Legislators in 1789–2018 was transformed into a knowledge graph. The data was published as a Linked Data service, including a SPARQL endpoint, on top of which tools for biographical and prosopographical research are implemented. A faceted browser named U.S. Congress Prosopographer with visualization tools for knowledge discovery is presented to provide new insights in political history.

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Title: Using Linked Data for Prosopographical Research of Historical Persons: Case U.S. Congress Legislators
Authors: Goki Miyakita
Petri Leskinen
Eero Hyvönen
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-01764-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-01765-1

Copyright Year: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01765-1_18

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