This paper argues for making a paradigm shift in publishing and using biographical
dictionaries on the web, based on Linked Data. The idea is to provide the user with …

Biographical collections are available on the Web for close reading. However, the
underlying texts can also be used for data analysis and distant reading, if the documents are …

This paper presents the idea to enrich printed biographical person registers with linked data
related to events that took place after the register was published. By transforming printed …

This paper presents the CultureSampo system from the viewpoint of publishing
heterogeneous linked data as a service. Discussed are the problems of converting legacy …

BookSampo is a semantic portal in use, covering metadata about practically all Finnish
fiction literature of Finnish public libraries on a work level. The system introduces a variety of …

This paper concerns the idea of publishing heterogenous cultural content on the Semantic
Web. By heterogenous content we mean metadata describing potentially any kind of cultural …

Despite significant advances in technology, the way how research is done and especially
communicated has not changed much. We have the vision that ultimately researchers will …

This paper presents the vision and longstanding work in Finland on creating a national
Cultural Heritage ontology infrastructure and semantic portals based on Linked Data on the …

We present an overview of CultureSampo, an ambitious system for creating a collective
semantic memory of the cultural heritage of a nation on the Semantic Web 2.0, combining …

Research has become more data-intensive over the last few decades. Sharing research
data is often a challenge, especially for interdisciplinary collaborative projects. One primary …