Launched in June 2025, the Knowledge Graph of Irish History (kg.virtualtreasury.ie) uses W3C based knowledge graph technologies to represent places and selected Irish people across history and links them to historical records contained in the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (virtualtreasury.ie).
In the next phase the knowledge graph is being expanded to other entities (such as events, Wills, Law cases etc.) that are associated with people and places. An important set of entities that need to be modelled and populated relates to an organisational organogram for the Irish government across the centuries. This is complicated, as it is not static, but it expands and evolves.
The project would involve knowledge graph schema modelling and population of the knowledge graph using AI tools (such as Transkribus or VRTI’s LLM-based EyeCR) from original historical records.
This project is suitable as a Final Year Project or MSc Dissertation project, with the challenge scope and ambition being tailored accordingly. The research will be co-supervised by a member of the VRTI Technical Team and undertaken in collaboration with an expert on the data from the National Archives in the UK. (Dr. Neil Johnston)
KEYWORDS:User Interface, Knowledge Graphs, Information Modelling, Image to Text techniques
PREREQUISITES: No prerequisite per se, but definitely helpful to have interest/experience in databases and web-based User Interface design/development