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Presentation about using Linked Open Data to crowdsource Dutch WW2 underground newspapers on Wikipedia, SWIB 2016, 29-11-2016 in Bonn

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English: Presentation about using Linked Open Data to crowdsource Dutch WW2 underground newspapers on Wikipedia, SWIB 2016, 29-11-2016 in Bonn.

The presentation describes a project to systematically describe and interlink 1,300 Dutch underground newspapers from World War 2 on Wikipedia using linked open data.

The project extracts contextual information about the newspapers from a book, converts it to structured data, and generates Wikipedia stubs linked to metadata, full texts, and each other.

Volunteers are expanding the stubs into full articles, improving access to information about this historical period.

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During the second World War some 1.300 illegal newspapers were issued by the Dutch resistance. Right after the war as many of these newspapers as possible were physically preserved by Dutch memory institutions. They were described in formal library catalogues that were digitized and brought online in the 1990s. In 2010 the national collection of underground newspapers - some 200.000 pages - was full-text digitized in Delpher, the national aggregator for historical full-texts. Having created online metadata and full-texts for these publications, the third pillar context was still missing, making it hard for people to understand the historic background of the newspapers. We are currently running a project to tackle this contextual problem. We started by extracting contextual entries from a hard-copy standard work on Dutch illegal press and combined these with data from the library catalogue and Delpher into a central LOD triple store. We then created links between historically related newspapers and used Named Entity Recognition to find persons, organisations and places related to the newspapers. We further semantically enriched the data using DBPedia. Next, using an article template to ensure uniformity and consistency, we generated 1.300 Wikipedia article stubs from the database. Finally, we sought collaboration with the Dutch Wikipedia volunteer community to extend these stubs into full encyclopedic articles. In this way we can give every newspaper its own Wikipedia article, making these WW2 materials much more visible to the Dutch public, over 80% of whom uses Wikipedia. At the same time the triple store can serve as a source for alternative applications, like data visualizations. This will enable us to visualize connections and networks between underground newspapers, as they developed over time between 1940 and 1945.

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Olaf Janssen    wikidata:Q66439268
 
Olaf Janssen
Alternative names
Olaf D. Janssen; Olaf Daniel Janssen; O. D. Janssen
Description Dutch librarian
Date of birth 20th century
date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
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Location of birth Dongen
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The Hague (2001–) Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q66439268
and Gerard Kuys
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https://zenodo.org/records/13132987 and https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13132987.

https://swib.org/swib16/slides/janssen_using_lod.pdf

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