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D3.2.2: Ingestion of heritage and societal data from Sampo

Project: FIN-CLARIAH
Grant agreement: Research Council of Finland no. 358720
Start date: 01-01-2024
Duration: 24 months

WP 3.2: Report on Ingestion of heritage and societal data from Sampo
Date of reporting: 04-06-2025

Report author: Eero Hyvönen (Aalto University)
Contributors: –
Deliverable location: Linked Data Finland (LDF.fi), several online data services, CSC Allas (ParliamentSampo), zenodo.org (several submissions of data dumps), various web portal URL-addresses

New Sampo systems:

CoinSampo
A new Sampo system based on archaeological data from the Cultural Heritage Agency.

• Data service and KG: https://ldf.fi/dataset/coinsampo/
• Data publication: Available at LDF.fi
• Portal: https://rahasampo.fi

LetterSampo
A new large Sampo system in use (some 1.3 million letters by nearly 120,000 historical people) from 1700 fonds.

• Data service and KG: https://ldf.fi/dataset/coco/
• Data publication: Available at Zenodo
• Portal: https://kirjeampo.fi

OperaSampo
OperaSampo finished:

• Data service and KG: https://ldf.fi/dataset/operasampo/
• Data publication: Available at Zenodo
• Portal: https://oopperasampo.fi

ArtSampo
First demo version using LLMs finished:

• Data service and KG: Available at https://ldf.fi (to be opened)
• Data publication: Available at https://zenodo.org (to be opened)
• Portal: https://artsampo.demo.seco.cs.aalto.fi / (to be opened)

New Projects and Applications

A new follow-up project proposal for LetterSampo for the Research Council of Finland (2025) with Sibelius Academy on analyzing Historical Letter textual contents (using LLMs, NLP, and KGs) (Anne Kauppala, Eero Hyvönen).

New joint works on applying the DARIAH-FI Sampo infra:
1) VU University, Amsterdam, PH-Sampo; 2) Geneve Graduate Institute, Switzerland, applying ParliamentSampo to, e.g., United Nations speeches; 3) Nomisma.org, NomismaSampo; 4) the British Museum, PASampo; 5) Heritage Practice Communities network, HPC Sampo; 6) University of Latvia, Nobel Price Sampo, DBLP Sampo.

Maintaining of ParlamentSampo
ParliamentSampo data was updated by data related of the new parliament 2023–2024. New semantic data regarding interruptions and laughter at the parliament. This was reported by YLE in prime time TV news and by an article on the web.

SampoSampo – Connecting Everything to Everything Else
A first demonstration of a new kind of data linking service, inspired by the international VIAF.org service of national libraries, was created.

Education: tutorials

Tutorial: How to create a Linked Open Data service and semantic portal for your Cultural Heritage data. (in English), November 28, 2024.

Tutorial organized at the Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries 2025 conference (DHNB 2025):

DHNB 2025 Tutorial, Tartu, Estonia: How to create a Linked Open Data service and semantic portal for your Cultural Heritage data. (in English), March 4, 2025.

Publication Events 2024–2025

• CoinSampo: Rahasampo – Suomen numismaattiset kansalaislöydöt 2013–2023 semanttisessa webissä: julkistustilaisuus. (in Finnish), February 28, 2024.
• LetterSampo Finland: Kirjesampo-julkistustilaisuus. (in Finnish), May 27, 2025.

Publications 2024–2025

Research articles related to the research above

2025: 13 papers
2024: 31 papers

One related dissertation accepted in 2024 (by Petri Leskinen) and one manuscript in pre-examination in 2025 (by Heikki Rantala), in addition to several MSc works.

FIN-CLARIAH project has received funding from the European Union – NextGenerationEU instrument and is funded by the Research Council of Finland under grant number 358720.