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NameSampo: A Linked Open Data Infrastructure and Workbench for Toponomastic Research

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Jouni Tuominen,

Jaakko Raunamaa,

Helinä Uusitalo,

Eero HyvönenAuthors Info & Claims

GeoHumanities '18: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geospatial Humanities

Article No.: 2, Pages 1 - 9

https://doi.org/10.1145/3282933.3282936

Published: 06 November 2018 Publication History

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This paper presents a series of projects where one of the main sources for toponomastic research in Finland, the corpora of 2.7 million place names in the Names Archive database of the Institute for the Languages of Finland, was digitized, enriched, and published as Linked Open Data using a data processing pipeline. Utilizing the Linked Data infrastructure and various external data sources, a modern full-stack web application, NameSampo, was created in collaboration between toponomastic researchers and computer scientists for searching, analyzing, and visualizing digital toponomastic data sources.

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NameSampo: A Linked Open Data Infrastructure and Workbench for Toponomastic Research
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Digital libraries and archives
2. Information systems

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Yu LCharlton ATerras MFilgueira R(2024)Advancing frances: New Heritage Textual Ontology, Enhanced Knowledge Graphs, and Refined Search Capabilities2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science)10.1109/e-Science62913.2024.10678663(1-10)Online publication date: 16-Sep-2024
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