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BookSampo Fiction Literature Knowledge Graph Revisited: Building a Faceted Search Interface with Seamlessly Integrated Data-Analytic Tools

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BookSampo – Finnish Fiction Literature on the Semantic Web is a Linked Data (LD) service and portal deployed in 2011 by the Public Libraries of Finland with nearly 2 million annual users. However, BookSampo’s user interface (UI) on top of the underlying knowledge graph (KG) in a SPARQL endpoint has been created using traditional search and data exploration methods, and the full potential of the KG—8.74 million triples today—has not been fully utilized: the data, covers all Finnish fiction literature and beyond and is interesting from a Digital Humanities (DH) research perspective, too. This paper presents first results in creating a new BookSampo UI using faceted semantic search with data-analytic tools for Digital Humanities (DH) research, based on the Sampo Model and Sampo-UI framework.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Portal: http://kirjasampo.fi; research homepage: https://seco.cs.aalto.fi/applications/kirjasampo/.

  2. 2.

    The model is called “Sampo” according to the Finnish epic Kalevala, where Sampo is a mythical machine giving riches and fortune to its holder, a kind of ancient metaphor of technology according to the most common interpretation of the concept.

  3. 3.

    See https://seco.cs.aalto.fi/applications/sampo/ for Sampos, links, videos, and publications.

  4. 4.

    Available at Github: https://github.com/SemanticComputing/sampo-ui.

  5. 5.

    https://ranke2.uni.lu/define-dsc/#%20,%20Universit%C3%A9%20du%20Luxembourg.

  6. 6.

    https://www.ifla.org/references/best-practice-for-national-bibliographic-agencies-in-a-digital-age/service-delivery/linked-open-data/.

  7. 7.

    https://www.oclc.org/research/areas/data-science/linkeddata/linked-data-overview.html.

  8. 8.

    https://ariadne-infrastructure.eu/.

  9. 9.

    https://linked.art/.

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to Matti Sarmela, Kaisa Hypén, and Tuomas Aitonurmi for providing the new version of BookSampo KG and for research collaborations. Our work is related to the EU project InTaVia (https://intavia.eu). CSC – IT Center for Science, Finland, provided computational resources.

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Hyvönen, E., Ahola, A., Ikkala, E. (2022). BookSampo Fiction Literature Knowledge Graph Revisited: Building a Faceted Search Interface with Seamlessly Integrated Data-Analytic Tools. In: Silvello, G., et al. Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. TPDL 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13541. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16802-4_54

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