BiographySampo
BiografiaSampo

Linked Data Finland

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BiographySampo Knowledge Graph includes separated in different subgraphs representing events, people, places, occupations, and other aspects and documentation of biographical history. The data covers approx. 13 600 people who are significant to the history of Finland from the 3rd century to the contemporary times.

To test and demonstrate its usefulness, this Knowledge Graph is in use in the semantic portal BiographySampo.

Example SPARQL query for the data:

How to cite this work:

More information about BIographySampo, papers and videos: https://seco.cs.aalto.fi/projects/biografiasampo


License

CC BY 4.0

Licensor: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, Semanttisen laskennan tutkimusryhmä (SeCo)

See possible graph-specific licenses below.


Detailed Dataset Contents

Occupational titles (URI: http://ldf.fi/nbf/titles)

( Browse data )

Information on occupational titles mentioned in the biographies. The graph contains about 7 000 labels.

Information included: name, abbreviation

Example resource URI: http://ldf.fi/nbf/titles/pyhimys

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

Licensor: Semanttisen laskennan tutkimusryhmä (SeCo)

( Browse data )

Categories of people mentioned in the Kansallisbiografia dataset. The data has 61 different labels.

Example resource URI: http://ldf.fi/nbf/categories/c44

Links (URI: http://ldf.fi/nbf/links)

Licensor: Semanttisen laskennan tutkimusryhmä (SeCo)

( Browse data / View in Biografiasampo.fi )

Links between the biographies. The links consists of manual addition by the biography authors, and automatical additions constructed with NLP techniques.

Example resource URI: http://ldf.fi/nbf/rm992_1

Linkage (URI: http://ldf.fi/nbf/linkage)

Licensor: Semanttisen laskennan tutkimusryhmä (SeCo)

( Browse data )

Linkage to person resources or images in external databases, e.g. Wikidata, VIAF, Geni.com, ISNI, Warsampo, etc.

Companies (URI: http://ldf.fi/nbf/companies)

( Browse data )

Information on companies mentioned in the biographies. The graph contains about 2 700 labels.

Information included: company name, alternative names, and abbreviation

Example resource URI: http://ldf.fi/nbf/companies/aarikka

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

Licensor: Semanttisen laskennan tutkimusryhmä (SeCo)

( Browse data )

Timespans used in events. Each timespan can have a time of start and end.

Example resource URI: http://ldf.fi/nbf/times/t1865-12-08

Biographies (URI: http://ldf.fi/nbf/biographies)

( Browse data / View in Biografiasampo.fi )
This graph contains the biographical descriptions of 13 665 biographees. Each biography consists of several paragraphs.

Information included: text paragraphs, names of the authors, date of publishing and modifying.

Example resource URI: http://ldf.fi/nbf/bio992

Periods (URI: http://ldf.fi/nbf/periods)

Licensor: Semanttisen laskennan tutkimusryhmä (SeCo)

( Browse data )

Time periods used in the data.

Example resource URI: http://ldf.fi/nbf/period1800

Family relations (URI: http://ldf.fi/nbf/relations)

Licensor: Semanttisen laskennan tutkimusryhmä (SeCo)

( Browse data / View in Biografiasampo.fi )

Family relations used in the data.

Example resource URI: http://ldf.fi/nbf/relations/MotherInLaw

BiographySampo, places (URI: http://ldf.fi/nbf/places)

( Browse data / View in Biografiasampo.fi )

This graph contains Finnish and international map names containing the most of places mentioned in the biographical data. The data has roughly 5 000 place names. Place resources in Finland were extracted from YSO places or from the Place Name Registry. Foreign places were queried from the Wikidata database, or achieved using the Google Maps Api.

Information included: label, alternative labels, coordinates (WGS84), broader place in hierarchy.

Detailed source information:

Example resource URI: http://ldf.fi/nbf/places/Helsinki

People in BiographySampo (URI: http://ldf.fi/nbf/people)

( Browse data / View in Biografiasampo.fi )

The people in the database of Finnish Literature Society, including five sources. The data also contains their relatives extracted from the biographical descriptions.

Information included:name, birth, death, occupations, biography, links to known relatives.

Detailed source information:

  • National Biography of Finland database. The Finnish Literature Society.
  • Business Leaders. The Finnish Literature Society.
  • Finnish Generals and Admirals 1809--1917. The Finnish Literature Society.
  • Finnish Clergy 1554--1721. The Finnish Literature Society.
  • Finnish Clergy 1800--1920. The Finnish Literature Society.

Example resource URI: http://ldf.fi/nbf/p992

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

Licensor: Semanttisen laskennan tutkimusryhmä (SeCo)

( Browse data )

Data sources.

Example resource URI: http://ldf.fi/nbf/sources/source1

Keywords (URI: http://ldf.fi/nbf/keywords)

Licensor: Semanttisen laskennan tutkimusryhmä (SeCo)

( Browse data )

Keywords used in the web application. The keywords are terms in the http://www.yso.fi/onto/koko/ ontology that have been linked to the biographical descriptions.

BiographySampo Events (URI: http://ldf.fi/nbf/events)

Licensor: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, Semanttisen laskennan tutkimusryhmä (SeCo)

( Browse data / View in Biografiasampo.fi )

Information about the events of the biographees were converted from the source CSV files or extracted from the biographical descriptions.

Information included:The births, deaths, and life time events of the biographees. An event contains a textual description, and the time and place when available.

Detailed source information:

  • National Biography of Finland database. The Finnish Literature Society.
  • Business Leaders. The Finnish Literature Society.
  • Finnish Generals and Admirals 1809--1917. The Finnish Literature Society.
  • Finnish Clergy 1554--1721. The Finnish Literature Society.
  • Finnish Clergy 1800--1920. The Finnish Literature Society.
  • Wikidata.

Example resource URI: http://ldf.fi/nbf/birth992


Schemas Used

Following schemas (vocabularies) are used in the datasets above:


URI Data Services

Give the URI without brackets (<>) and without encoding.

Human Use Case 1: Viewing the RDF Description of a URI

View the RDF description of a URI using the template: http://ldf.fi/SERVICE/data?uri=URI

URI:
Format:
View result in browser (accept header = text/plain)

Human Use Case 2: Linked Data Browsing Starting from a URI

Start browsing from a URI using the template http://ldf.fi/SERVICE/page?uri=URI

URI:

Machine Use Case: Getting the RDF Description of a Resource

If the URI is dereferenceable, e.g., minted at the http://ldf.fi domain, just input the URI in a browser or use it in your favourite software. For example: URI=http://ldf.fi/finlex/laki/p35. If the URI is described in this LDF service you can use the URI template http://ldf.fi/SERVICE/data?uri=URI no matter whether the URI is dereferenceable or not: just input the URI in the form below:

Give URI:

Format:


SPARQL Endpoint: http://ldf.fi/nbf/sparql

Queries are represented using the URI template: http://ldf.fi/SERVICE/sparql?query=QUERY

Query Test Form


Format:
View result in original form in browser (content-type = text/plain).
By default (XML/HTML and the "text/plain" check box not checked) the result is presented as an HTML table with links to related resources.
Note: With DESCRIBE/CONSTRUCT queries "Text" format means Turtle, "CSV" and "TSV" formats cannot be used, and checking the "text/plain" check box presents the result in N-Triples.

SPARQL Service Description

Get the description in RDF. (Notice: A service description is not available for all datasets - then empty description is returned. If you open the link in browser you are directed to a SPARQL query form instead of the RDF description. You can access the service description by making an HTTP query without an Accept header (e.g. curl).) LDF uses W3C SPARQL Service Description recommendation for this.

Visualization

A general Google Charts visualization is available here.


Semantic Computing Research GroupAalto UniversityUniversity of HelsinkiTekes