Increasingly Knowledge Graphs are underpinning Digital Humanities projects to support the representation and interlinking of data. For example in the recently launched Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI), a KG is used to represent people, places, roles that appear in historical documents and their interconnection over the centuries. Typically these KGs are implemented using W3C standards and made available for interlinking by adopting the Linked Data principles. In doing so it makes possible to interlink a source KG with other KGs available on the web, with the purpose of enriching information about an entity contained within the source KG.
However majority of interlinking approaches available in the state of the art assume the user is a knowledge engineer, rather than a subject matter expert (e.g. a medic or financier etc.).
The aim of this project to work with historians (as subject matter experts) in the virtual records treasury of ireland VRTI (virtualtreasury.ie) and the VOICES project (voicesproject.ie) to develop an approach that would allow these subject matter experts to interlink entities with their KG with entities in authoritative KGs available elsewhere. This project will build on previous research undertaken in TCD resulting in an interlinking approach for subject matter experts called NAISC-L.
An interest in user interaction is essential for this project, good technical abilities, previous experience with knowledge graphs would be useful (or taking CS7IS1 module)