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