Abstract
This paper shows how biographical registries can be represented as Linked Data, enriched by data linking to related data sources, and used in Digital Humanities. As a use case, a database of 11 987 historical U.S. Congress Legislators in 1789–2018 was transformed into a knowledge graph. The data was published as a Linked Data service, including a SPARQL endpoint, on top of which tools for biographical and prosopographical research are implemented. A faceted browser named U.S. Congress Prosopographer with visualization tools for knowledge discovery is presented to provide new insights in political history.
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Miyakita, G., Leskinen, P., & Hyvönen, E. (2018). Using linked data for prosopographical research of historical persons: Case U.S. congress legislators. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 11197 LNCS, pp. 150–162). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01765-1_18
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