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This paper presents the idea and our work of extracting and reassembling a genealogical network automatically from a collection of biographies. The network can be used as a tool for network analysis of historical persons. The data has been published as Linked Data and as an interactive online service as part of the in-use data service and semantic portal BiographySampo—Finnish Biographies on the Semantic Web.
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https://kansallisbiografia.fi/, accessed 20 March 2019.
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Online at: http://biografiasampo.fi; cf. project homepage for further information and publications: https://seco.cs.aalto.fi/projects/biografiasampo/en/.
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http://seco.cs.aalto.fi/projects/dcert/, accessed: 9 March 2019.
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https://www.avoindata.fi/data/en_GB/dataset/none, accessed: 20 March 2019.
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Leskinen, P., Hyvönen, E. (2019). Extracting Genealogical Networks of Linked Data from Biographical Texts. In: Hitzler, P., et al. The Semantic Web: ESWC 2019 Satellite Events. ESWC 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11762. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32327-1_24
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