Knowledge and Data Engineering

[ALLOCATED] 24/25 Aligning, Mining and Visualising Historical Records

Prof. Declan O'Sullivan (email | all projects)

The historical records in question relate to the tenant lists (rent rolls) for Coolattin, a major landed estate in Wicklow belonging to Earl Fitzwilliam, in the mid 19th century. The National Library has the estate papers, which include bound volumes of beautiful estate maps by townland, each with a list of tenants and the size … Read more

[ALLOCATED] 24/25: Authoritative Interlinking of Knowledge Graphs

Prof. Declan O'Sullivan (email | all projects)

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launched Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI), a KG is used to represent people, places, roles that appear in historical documents and their interconnection over the centuries.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 … Read more