School of Computer Science and Statistics
The Public Record Office of Ireland (PROI) was established in 1867 to safely store centuries of Irish historical records dating back to the Norman invasion in 1169. As they gathered tens of thousands of documents into the allegedly fire-proof Record Treasury the PROI staff recorded each item in large handwritten volumes called the Transfer and … Read more
Many knowledge graphs are not constructed from scratch, but rather are based on the ongoing uplift of data from existing data sources hosted in a variety of diverse data representations (relational data, JSON, CSV, XML etc.). The community has developed specifications that allow engineers who construct and maintain knowledge graphs to flexibly specify what data … Read more
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Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI), the KG of Irish History is used to represent people, places, roles that appear in historical documents and their interconnection over the centuries. Typically these KGs are … Read more
Vast amounts of data is being published by governments as open data (e.g. https://data.gov.ie). Typically the decision to publish a dataset in an open manner is mandated but decision made in isolation as to how it could be integrated with other datasets. This research would focus on development of an App/Tool that would bring together … Read more