Uncovering Hidden Connections: Exploring Cultural Heritage through Computational Storytelling
Chair: Hering, Katharina

SwissBritNet: Exploring Swiss-British Relations in Early Modern Times through an RDF-star-based Knowledge Graph

Alassi, Sepideh; Rosenthaler, Lukas; Habermann, Ina

University of Basel, Switzerland

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The SwissBritNet project aims to establish a comprehensive database of 17th- and 18th-century documents focusing on the often-overlooked Swiss-British relations as RDF-star-based knowledge graph and presenting the data in an interactive web-based application with visualization and analysis tools.


Machine learning as a thought provoking tool for cultural heritage projects: a computational approach to understanding the historical development of medieval seals

McEwan, John

University of Kansas, United States of America

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Machine learning technology provides scholars with powerful tools for constructing cultural heritage datasets. Scholars need to understand how these systems work before they can use their outputs, but the systems themselves can also provide scholars with new ways of understanding their subjects.


prompting the past

Clavert, Frédéric

Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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For several years now, AI-based systems have been able to automatically generate images or texts on the basis of a 'prompt'. This paper investigates various methods that would used those prompts as primary sources for historians, with a focus on prompts referring to the past.


GeoLOD: A Toponym Platform to Connect Japanese Historical Gazetteers and Historical Big Data Apps

Kitamoto, Asanobu (1,2); Hashimoto, Yuta (3); Kano, Yasuyuki (4); Ohmura, Junzo (4)

1: ROIS-DS Center for Open Data in the Humanities, Japan; 2: National Institute of Informatics; 3: National Museum of Japanese History; 4: Earthquake Research Institute, the University of Tokyo

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We propose the GeoLOD connecting gazetteers and apps for historical big data research. We introduce gazetteers for Japanese historical place names, including authoritative gazetteers released as open data as the result of collaboration with a publisher. We also introduce an app that uses the GeoLOD API for historical place names.


The Digital Dictionary of Ancient Greek: Extensive, User-Friendly, Interoperable

Riaño Rufilanchas, Daniel

CSIC, Spain

The Digital Dictionary of Ancient Greek (DDGA) extracts and consolidates all the semantic and grammatical information from traditional bilingual dictionaries, filling in gaps, and, more importantly, generating new data, including declension types, conjugation patterns, etc. This information is presented to users in a clearer manner or returned to enable interoperability