AcademySampo – Finnish Academic People 1640-1899
Akatemiasampo

Actors in AcademySampo (URI: http://ldf.fi/yoma/actors)

Licensor: Yrjö Kotivuori: Ylioppilasmatrikkeli 1640–1852. Verkkojulkaisu 2005., Veli-Matti Autio: Ylioppilasmatrikkeli 1853–1899. Verkkojulkaisu., Semanttisen laskennan tutkimusryhmä (SeCo)

The people in the AcademySampo database. The data has approx. 28 000 student resources and almost 50 000 relatives.

Information included: name, alternative names, basic biographical information (e.g. gender, places and times of birth and death), links to lifetime events, relating vocations, categories, and other related people like relatives or teachers in the university.

Example resource URI: http://ldf.fi/yoma/people/p13687

Categories (URI: http://ldf.fi/yoma/categories)

Licensor: Yrjö Kotivuori: Ylioppilasmatrikkeli 1640–1852. Verkkojulkaisu 2005., Semanttisen laskennan tutkimusryhmä (SeCo)

Graph Categories contains the Ylioppilasmatrikkeli 1640–1852 search item categories converted into RDF. The categories group the people based on e.g. their schools, universities, and places of working.

Example resource URI: http://ldf.fi/yoma/categories/t2247

Events (URI: http://ldf.fi/yoma/events)

Licensor: Yrjö Kotivuori: Ylioppilasmatrikkeli 1640–1852. Verkkojulkaisu 2005., Veli-Matti Autio: Ylioppilasmatrikkeli 1853–1899. Verkkojulkaisu., Semanttisen laskennan tutkimusryhmä (SeCo)

Graph of events contains approx. 175 000 events extracted from the biographical descriptions in the textual source material. The events consists of Births or Baptisms (approx. 25 000), Deaths or Burial (44 000), and events during a person's studies or career (100 000). An event usually has links to automatically inferred timespans (schema:date) or places (schema:place).

Example SPARQL query for the data:

• Showing the yearly number of participants at the priesthood meeting in Turku.

Example resource URI: http://ldf.fi/yoma/event/b13687

Labels (URI: http://ldf.fi/yoma/labels)

Licensor: Yrjö Kotivuori: Ylioppilasmatrikkeli 1640–1852. Verkkojulkaisu 2005., Veli-Matti Autio: Ylioppilasmatrikkeli 1853–1899. Verkkojulkaisu., Semanttisen laskennan tutkimusryhmä (SeCo)

Graph of Labels contains the given and family names of the people. The approx. 92 000 labels were computationally extracted from the source data. The label resources are linked from people resources using skosxl:prefLabel or skosxl:altLabel properties and they contain family names (schema:familyName) and given names (schema:givenName). A person can have several labels representing the name variations, e.g. maiden and married names, nicknames, or changed names.

Example resource URI: http://ldf.fi/yoma/label/l2654833183169516015

Organizations (URI: http://ldf.fi/yoma/organizations)

Licensor: Yrjö Kotivuori: Ylioppilasmatrikkeli 1640–1852. Verkkojulkaisu 2005., Veli-Matti Autio: Ylioppilasmatrikkeli 1853–1899. Verkkojulkaisu., Semanttisen laskennan tutkimusryhmä (SeCo)

Graph of Organizations contains the 24 student nations and the approx. 1000 organizations mentioned in the source material descriptions. The student nations were extracted from the source material and the organizations were computationally extracted from the data.

Example SPARQL query for the data:

• Show places of birth colored by the Student Nation (switch to tab Geo to see the map).

Example resource URI: http://ldf.fi/yoma/organizations/o3186298215094793687

AcademySampo, places (URI: http://ldf.fi/yoma/places)

Licensor: Semanttisen laskennan tutkimusryhmä (SeCo)

This graph contains names containing the most of places referenced in the actor data. The data has approx. 9 500 place resources out of which approx. 3000 are linked to events or vocations.

Information included: label, alternative labels, coordinates (WGS84), broader place in hierarchy, and links to resources in external databases (e.g. GeoNames, Wikidata).

Example resource URI: http://ldf.fi/yoma/places/m5567

References (URI: http://ldf.fi/yoma/references)

Licensor: Yrjö Kotivuori: Ylioppilasmatrikkeli 1640–1852. Verkkojulkaisu 2005., Semanttisen laskennan tutkimusryhmä (SeCo)

Graph References contains the source material search item references converted into RDF. The references are literal sources, historical registers of e.g. schools, universities, parishes, and student nations from which the information has been collected.

Example resource URI: http://ldf.fi/yoma/references/t2076

Relations (URI: http://ldf.fi/yoma/relations)

Licensor: Yrjö Kotivuori: Ylioppilasmatrikkeli 1640–1852. Verkkojulkaisu 2005., Veli-Matti Autio: Ylioppilasmatrikkeli 1853–1899. Verkkojulkaisu., Semanttisen laskennan tutkimusryhmä (SeCo)

Graph of relations contains approx. 260 000 family relations and approx. 4000 academic relations (e.g. teacher-student) extracted from the biographical descriptions in the textual source material. There are 67 different types of family relations consisting of not only basic genealogical relations (e.g. parents, spouses) but also rare one like Stepfather-in-law or Wife's former spouse.

Example SPARQL query for the data:

• List the amount of each family relation type in the dataset

Example resource URI: http://ldf.fi/yoma/relations/r2782033581645907536

Data sources (URI: http://ldf.fi/yoma/sources)

Licensor: Yrjö Kotivuori: Ylioppilasmatrikkeli 1640–1852. Verkkojulkaisu 2005., Veli-Matti Autio: Ylioppilasmatrikkeli 1853–1899. Verkkojulkaisu., Semanttisen laskennan tutkimusryhmä (SeCo)

There are two data source, for the Register 1640–1852 and for the Register 1853–1899 datasets.

Example resource URI: https://ylioppilasmatrikkeli.fi

Texts (URI: http://ldf.fi/yoma/texts)

Licensor: Yrjö Kotivuori: Ylioppilasmatrikkeli 1640–1852. Verkkojulkaisu 2005., Veli-Matti Autio: Ylioppilasmatrikkeli 1853–1899. Verkkojulkaisu., Semanttisen laskennan tutkimusryhmä (SeCo)

Graph of Texts contains the text descriptions for the approx. 28 000 students in the people graph. There are four kind of text fields:

• main description (:entry_text)
• brief summary (:abstract)
• list of relatives (:relative_text)
• list of references (:reference_text)

Times (URI: http://ldf.fi/yoma/times)

Licensor: Semanttisen laskennan tutkimusryhmä (SeCo)

Timespans used in events. The approx. 60 000 timespans were computationally extracted from the source data. Each timespan have an optional time of start and end. A timespan can also have a skos:broader property for a link to a wider timespan.

Example resource URI: http://ldf.fi/yoma/times/t1804-02-05

Vocations (URI: http://ldf.fi/yoma/titles)

Licensor: Semanttisen laskennan tutkimusryhmä (SeCo)

Graph of vocations contains approx. 10 000 vocations extracted from the biographical descriptions in the textual source material. The vocations consists of educational degrees, professions, and descriptions of work of the people. A vocation can also have links to automatically inferred places (schema:place) in cases such as 'Bishop of Turku' or 'Merchant living in Porvoo'. The vocations are linked to the ontology of Finnish Historical Occupations (AMMO).

Example resource URI: http://ldf.fi/yoma/titles/v1413318245506802797