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A User Interface Model for Digital Humanities Research: Case BookSampo – Finnish Fiction Literature on the Semantic Web

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This paper presents the implementation of a new user interface (UI) for the Finnish fiction literature BookSampo knowledge graph. The UI utilizes possibilities of semantic web technologies to provide the end-user an enhanced search and browsing experience through faceted search and data-analytical tools for Digital Humanities research.

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Notes

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    See project research homepage at: https://seco.cs.aalto.fi/applications/kirjasampo/.

  2. 2.

    See the homepage of Sampo portals at: https://seco.cs.aalto.fi/applications/sampo/.

  3. 3.

    See code and documentation at: https://github.com/SemanticComputing/sampo-ui.

  4. 4.

    Available at: http://kirjasampo.fi.

  5. 5.

    https://kirjastot.fi.

  6. 6.

    Statistics (in Finnish) available at: https://www.kirjasampo.fi/fi/kirjasammon-tilastot-2021.

  7. 7.

    Demo video available at: https://vimeo.com/805561697.

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to Matti Sarmela, Kaisa Hypén, and Tuomas Aitonurmi for their collaborations as well as providing a newer version of the BookSampo KG to be used in the development of the new user interface. This project was funded by the Aalto University; Computing resources of the CSC – IT Center for Science were used.

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  1. Semantic Computing Research Group (SeCo), Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

    Annastiina Ahola, Eero Hyvönen & Heikki Rantala

  2. Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities (HELDIG), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Eero Hyvönen

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Ahola, A., Hyvönen, E., Rantala, H. (2023). A User Interface Model for Digital Humanities Research: Case BookSampo – Finnish Fiction Literature on the Semantic Web. In: Pesquita, C., et al. The Semantic Web: ESWC 2023 Satellite Events. ESWC 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13998. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43458-7_20

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