1. APIS New Austrian Prosopographical Information System
Mapping Historical Networks
Goals
Create a digital environment allowing for new modes of access to the data to foster empirical research in a range of SSH disciplines
Extract information from free text into structured format
Link with external resources (Linked Open Data)
Investigate migration patterns and elite networks on the base of the structured data
Partners
Institute for Modern and Contemporary Historical Research (INZ),
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (ACDH)
Institute for Urban and Regional Research (ISR)
a number of external partners
Data
Austrian Biographical Dictionary (ÖBL) biographies of important historical figures of Austro-Hungarian monarchy and the First and Second Republics (of Austria) 1
majority of information in unstructured free text
Sample biography in XML:
Data model
5 main entities: person, place, institution, event, work
All interlinked with typed, timed relations
Mentions in text linked to entities
Entities enriched with external URIs
Approach
Hybrid extraction workflow:
automatic processing by multiple tools
linking to external semantic reference resources (e.g. GND, GeoNames, DBpedia).
manual post-processing curation
feedback manual input to automatic process
Web interface for manual tagging & disambiguation:
Outlook: visualizing migration
Financed by „Digital Humanities: Langzeitprojekte zum kulturellen Erbe“ 1
Poster creators: