Technical Resources

This page provides information about resources and research publications aimed at advanced technical users of the Knowledge Graph for Irish History

Ontology

Concepts and Relationships used to describe the data.

Link: https://www.w3id.org/virtual-treasury/ontology#

SPARQL Endpoint

The VRTI Knowledge Graph has a query interface that allows humans and software applications to pose user specified queries upon it using a technical language called SPARQL (https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/), and with reference to the vocabulary used to describe particular properties (See Ontology link above).

Link: https://virtuoso.virtualtreasury.ie/

Why not try it out yourself? Copy and paste either of the queries below

Links in results shown are clickable!

Sample People Query

# EXAMPLE QUERY TO LOOK UP INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH Arthur Annesley with unique identifier of https://kg.virtualtreasury.ie/person/Annesley_Arthur_c17/v15gm6c
PREFIX crm: <http://erlangen-crm.org/current/>
PREFIX vrti:  <https://www.w3id.org/VRTI/ontology#>
PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
PREFIX owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#>
PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
PREFIX wd: <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/>
PREFIX wdt: <http://www.wikidata.org/prop/direct/>
PREFIX schema: <http://schema.org/>
SELECT ?Person ?Property ?Value WHERE {
  <https://kg.virtualtreasury.ie/person/Annesley_Arthur_c17/v15gm6c> ?Property ?Value.
  BIND (<https://kg.virtualtreasury.ie/person/Annesley_Arthur_c17/v15gm6c> AS ?Person)
} LIMIT 10

Sample Places Query

# EXAMPLE QUERY TO LOOK UP INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH Esker, Co. Dublin with unique identifier of https://kg.virtualtreasury.ie/place/present-day/parish/Esker/v1b5x2r
PREFIX crm: <http://erlangen-crm.org/current/>
PREFIX vrti:  <https://www.w3id.org/VRTI/ontology#>
PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
PREFIX owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#>
PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
PREFIX wd: <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/>
PREFIX wdt: <http://www.wikidata.org/prop/direct/>
PREFIX schema: <http://schema.org/>
SELECT ?Place ?Property ?Value WHERE {
  <https://kg.virtualtreasury.ie/place/present-day/parish/Esker/v1b5x2r> ?Property ?Value.
  BIND (<https://kg.virtualtreasury.ie/place/present-day/parish/Esker/v1b5x2r> AS ?Place)
} LIMIT 10

Publications

Date	Author	Title	Detail	Link	Tag
2024	Beyza Yaman, Lucy McKenna, Alex Randles, Lynn Kilgallon, Peter Crooks, Declan O'Sullivan	Digital Prosopography Information in Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland Knowledge Graph	Presented at SemDH’24: The First International Workshop on Semantic Digital Humanities, May 28, 2024, Crete, Greece.	https://semdh.github.io/assets/papers/SemDH-paper-14.pdf	Computer Science
2024	Alex Randles, Lucy McKenna, Lynn Kilgallon, Beyza Yaman, Peter Crooks, Declan O'Sullivan	The Knowledge Graph Explorer for the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland	Proceedings of VOILA 2024: The 9th International Workshop on the Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies, Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs, co-located with the 23rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2024), Baltimore, USA, November 11-15. CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org)	https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3773/paper4.pdf	Computer Science
2024	Alex Randles, Lucy McKenna, Lynn Kilgallon, Beyza Yaman, Peter Crooks, Declan O'Sullivan	Evaluating the Knowledge Graph Editor of the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland	Proceedings of VOILA 2024: The 9th International Workshop on the Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies, Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs, co-located with the 23rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2024), Baltimore, USA, November 11-15. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol-3773.	https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3773/paper5.pdf	Computer Science
2024	Alex Randles, Lucy McKenna, Lynn Kilgallon, Beyza Yaman, Peter Crooks, Declan O'Sullivan	Facilitating Search of the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland Knowledge Graph using ChatGPT	Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Semantic Systems (SEMANTiCS 2024), Amsterdam, Netherlands. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol-3759.	https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3759/paper15.pdf	Computer Science
2022	Christophe Debruyne, Gary Munnelly, Lynn Kilgallon, Declan OSullivan, Peter Crooks	Creating a knowledge graph for Irelands lost history: knowledge engineering and curation in the Beyond 2022 Project	ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage 15:2 (2002)	https://doiorg/101145/3474829	Computer Science
2021	Vuong M Ngo, Gary Munnelly, Fabrizio Orlandi, Peter Crooks, Declan O’Sullivan, Owen Conlan	A semantic search engine for historical handwritten document images	In: G. Berget, M.M. Hall, D. Brenn, S Kumpulainen(eds), Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries TPDL 2021 Lecture Notes in Computer Science (vol 12866) Springer: Cham, 2021	https://linkspringercom/chapter/101007/978-3-030-86324-1_7	Computer Science
2020	Christophe Debruyne	Mining for connections in the records: knowledge graphs in Beyond 2022	Archive Fever 12 (May 2020)	-	Computer Science