A new semantic portal brings together data on Finnish civil war victims for open use
A new semantic portal and linked open data service combines information about the war victims of the Finnish Civil War (1918) and prison camps, the First World War, and Kinship Wars that took place around the same time, a century ago.
The new service, called Sotasurmasampo 1914鈥1922, extends and renews the original War Victims of Finland 1914鈥1922 database service of the National Archives of Finland. The new innovative service publishes for the first time linked open data of the war victims combined with data-analytic tools that Digital Humanities researchers and other people interested in the topic can make use of.
鈥楾he data for this project has been gathered from multiple sources and we have included, for example, a new database on the civil war battles,鈥 says Eero Hyv枚nen, Professor at Aalto University and the Director of the Helsinki Center for Digital Humanities (HELDIG). 鈥榃e have created a 鈥渉omepage鈥 for each of the 41,000 war victims by combining pieces of information from different sources using Semantic Web technologies.鈥
According to Professor Hyv枚nen, the new system provides researchers and everyone else with a more versatile, 鈥榮mart鈥 search engine and tool kit for filtering the data from different perspectives and facilitating quantitative research, visualization, and animation of the data. 鈥楾he user can also download the filtered data onto her computer for further processing by spreadsheet computing, for example.鈥
Researchers of the Semantic Computing Research Group at Aalto University and HELDIG, and experts at the National Archives of Finland have created the new Sotasurmasampo 1914鈥1922 service together. The Ministry of Education and Culture has funded their research. The new service will be published on Wednesday November 20 at the National Archives of Finland. It is a new member of the nationally and internationally awarded 鈥淪ampo鈥 series of semantic portals in Finland that have had millions of users since 2008.
Further information
Open invitation to the launch event:
The service online (from Nov 20, 2019):
The website of the project:
Eero Hyv枚nen
Professor, Aalto University Department of Computer Science
Director, Helsinki Center for Digital Humanities
Phone +358503841618
eero.hyvonen@aalto.fi
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