BD2019
Biographical Data in a Digital World 2019

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 10 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 9 papers were accepted for this volume.

Building Digital Biographical Resources

• A Quantitative Analysis of Biographical Data from Ainm​, the Irish-language Biographical Database 1-7
  Úna Bhreathnach, Cathal Burke, Jeaic Mag Fhinn, Gearóid Ó Cleircín, Brian Ó Raghallaigh
• Reconstructing Data for Modelling Collective Biography: A Case of Zemstvo Deputies in Russia in the Second Half of XIX century 8-15
  Nadezhda Povroznik
• Linked Data - A Paradigm Shift for Publishing and Using Biography Collections on the Semantic Web 16-23
  Eero Hyvönen, Petri Leskinen, Minna Tamper, Heikki Rantala, Esko Ikkala, Jouni Tuominen, Kirsi Keravuori
• Data Exchange in Practice: Towards a Prosopographical API 40-48
  Georg Vogeler, Gunter Vasold, Matthias Schlögl

NLP Tools for Biographical Data Mining

• Mining the Biographical Dictionary of Republican China. From Print to Network Exploration 24-30
  Pierre Magistry, Cécile Armand, Christian Henriot
• Large-scale Data Harvesting for Biographical Data 66-72
  Alistair Plum, Marcos Zampieri, Constantin Orăsan, Eveline Wandl-Vogt, Ruslan Mitkov

Exploring Capabilities of Digital Resources with Case Studies

• Reassembling the Lives of Finnish Prisoners of the Second World War on the Semantic Web 31-39
  Mikko Koho, Esko Ikkala, Eero Hyvönen
• Visualizing Biographical Trajectories by Historical Artifacts: A Case Study Based on the Photography Collection of Charles W. Cushman 49-56
  Eva Mayr, Saminu Salisu, Velitchko A. Filipov, Gúnther Schreder, Roger A. Leite, Silvia Miksch, Florian Windhager
• Exiled but not Forgotten: Investigating Commemoration of Musicians in Vienna After 1945 Through Visual Analytics 57-65
  Velitchko Filipov, Nathalie Soursos, Viktor Schetinger, Susana Zapke, Silvia Miksch