Subject:Knowledge and Data Engineering

Source: https://projects.scss.tcd.ie/subject_area/knowledge-data-engineering/ Parent: https://projects.scss.tcd.ie

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

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 … Read more

The historical records relate to Coolattin, a major landed estate in Wicklow, Ireland 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 of their landholdings. The Fitzwilliam Estate also … 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

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launched Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI), a KG is used to represent people, places, roles that appear in historical documents and their interconnection over the centuries.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