BookSampo Fiction Literature Knowledge Graph Revisited: Building a Faceted Search Interface with Seamlessly Integrated Data-Analytic Tools

Abstract

AbstractBookSampo – Finnish Fiction Literature on the Semantic Web is a Linked Data (LD) service and portal deployed in 2011 by the Public Libraries of Finland with nearly 2 million annual users. However, BookSampo’s user interface (UI) on top of the underlying knowledge graph (KG) in a SPARQL endpoint has been created using traditional search and data exploration methods, and the full potential of the KG—8.74 million triples today—has not been fully utilized: the data, covers all Finnish fiction literature and beyond and is interesting from a Digital Humanities (DH) research perspective, too. This paper presents first results in creating a new BookSampo UI using faceted semantic search with data-analytic tools for Digital Humanities (DH) research, based on the Sampo Model and Sampo-UI framework.KeywordsSemantic webDigital librariesLinked dataUser interfacesPortals