WarSampo knowledge graph: Finland in the Second World War as Linked Open Data

Semantic Web ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikko Koho ◽  
Esko Ikkala ◽  
Petri Leskinen ◽  
Minna Tamper ◽  
Jouni Tuominen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Data ◽  
Military History ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Linked Open Data ◽  
Knowledge Graph ◽  
World War ◽  
Automatic Data ◽  
Data Infrastructure ◽  
Sequence Of Events ◽  
Second World

The Second World War (WW2) is arguably the most devastating catastrophe of human history, a topic of great interest to not only researchers but the general public. However, data about the Second World War is heterogeneous and distributed in various organizations and countries making it hard to utilize. In order to create aggregated global views of the war, a shared ontology and data infrastructure is needed to harmonize information in various data silos. This makes it possible to share data between publishers and application developers, to support data analysis in Digital Humanities research, and to develop data-driven intelligent applications. As a first step towards these goals, this article presents the WarSampo knowledge graph (KG), a shared semantic infrastructure, and a Linked Open Data (LOD) service for publishing data about WW2, with a focus on Finnish military history. The shared semantic infrastructure is based on the idea of representing war as a spatio-temporal sequence of events that soldiers, military units, and other actors participate in. The used metadata schema is an extension of CIDOC CRM, supplemented by various military history domain ontologies. With an infrastructure containing shared ontologies, maintaining the interlinked data brings upon new challenges, as one change in an ontology can propagate across several datasets that use it. To support sustainability, a repeatable automatic data transformation and linking pipeline has been created for rebuilding the whole WarSampo KG from the individual source datasets. The WarSampo KG is hosted on a data service based on W3C Semantic Web standards and best practices, including content negotiation, SPARQL API, download, automatic documentation, and other services supporting the reuse of the data. The WarSampo KG, a part of the international LOD Cloud and totalling ca. 14 million triples, is in use in nine end-user application views of the WarSampo portal, which has had over 690 000 end users since its opening in 2015.

Rethinking the Place of the Second World War in the Contemporary History of Albania

Südosteuropa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gentiana Kera
Keyword(s):  
Military History ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Master Narrative ◽  
World War ◽  
History Writing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Previous State ◽  
Second World ◽  
State Socialist

AbstractThe Second World War in Albania was a central topic of socialist historiography because of the importance laid upon the National Liberation War for the legitimation of the establishment of communist rule in 1944. History writing was a very centralized process, controlled by party institutions responsible for safeguarding the implementation of Marxist‒Leninist principles and party lines. Since the 1990s, the history of the Second World War has been revised in the framework of a general revision of Albanian national history. History writing developed as an open process and now included historians from countries other than Albania, as opposed to the previous state socialist isolation. The extent to which the war history had been distorted and manipulated during socialism has influenced the subsequent process of rewriting that first focused on adjusting the existing narratives. Thus, despite an increasing variety of research topics, the historiography on wartime Albania has remained dominated by political and military history, and by the national master narrative.

scholarly journals PODER MILITAR E IDENTIDADE DE GRUPO NA SEGUNDA GUERRA MUNDIAL: A EXPERIÊNCIA HISTÓRICA DA PSIQUIATRIA MILITAR BRASILEIRA

2001 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennison De Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Military History ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War Two ◽  
World War ◽  
Military Experience ◽  
Military Institutions ◽  
The Military ◽  
Second World

Este artigo se propõe a discutir, com relação à experiência militar da Força Expedicionária Brasileira (FEB) na Campanha da Itália (1944/ 45) na Segunda Guerra Mundial, dois aspectos que a literatura disponível considera centrais para o entendimento da organização da violência a partir das instituições militares: as formas pelas quais se dá a construção de uma identidade coletiva entre os seus membros e o papel que dentro desse processo é desempenhado pelos sentimentos experimentados pelos indivíduos. Este artigo pretende interpretar as evidências legadas sobre esses tópicos a partir de fontes fontes legadas pela História Militar e pela Psiquiatria Militar brasileiras numa perspectiva interdisciplinar. Abstract This article intends to discuss, with relationship to the military experience of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force (FEB) in the Campaign of Italy (1944/45) in Second World War, two aspects that the available literature considers central for the understanding of the organization of the violence starting from the military institutions: the forms for the which works the construction of a collective identity among of its members and the paper that inside of this process it is carried out by the feelings tried by the individuals. This text intends to interpret the evidences delegated on these topics starting from sources available by the Military History and for the Psychiatry Military Brazilians in a interdisciplinar perspective.

Spitfires Sprouting in the Burmese Spring: The Real-life Quest for Historic Fantasy Aircraft in Contemporary Myanmar

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-146
Author(s):  
Jane M. Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Military History ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Holy Grail ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
Military Regimes ◽  
Second World

AbstractIn 2013, a group of British aviation archaeologists began excavating in Myanmar in search of some 140 mint-condition crated Royal Air Force (RAF) Spitfire Mk XIV aircraft. According to their story, at the end of the Second World War, Allied forces in Burma were left with these unassembled aircraft. Without the funds to send them home, but unwilling to let the planes fall into enemy hands, they buried the crated planes in Mingaladon, Meiktila and Myitkyina. Like legends of pirate treasure, the story of these buried Spitfires carries with it fantastic aura and intrigue. For aviation fans, the pirate's gold is an iconic aircraft, meaningful in patriotic narratives for its role in the Battle of Britain. This paper will discuss this story as a form of military history folklore which is stoked by the orientalist perception that Burma/Myanmar's decades of military regimes and purported isolation indirectly ‘“preserved” the crated aircraft in time. As this paper will demonstrate, Burmese and others in Southeast Asia have their own legends of buried war materiel and treasure. This point, though largely lost on British aviation enthusiasts in their quest for their Spitfire ‘holy grail’, nevertheless crucially enabled their quest to manifest itself.

scholarly journals The Manchurian Strategic Operation of the Soviet Forces in 1945: Questions of Historiography and Conceptual Rationale

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-15
Author(s):  
Yuri Kuzmin
Keyword(s):  
Military History ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Diplomatic History ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Historical Science ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Military ◽  
Second World

The Soviet-Japanese war of 1945 is an important part of the Second World war, a heroic page in the military history of Russia. The Manchurian strategic operation of August, 1945 is actively studied in Russian and world historical science and considerable number of historical sources and memoirs are published. However, the theoretical and geopolitical aspect of the Soviet-Japanese war requires additional research. The place of war in national and world history, the causes and consequences of hostilities, and diplomatic history need further understanding and generalization. The article focuses on controversial issues in the study of the Soviet-Japanese war of 1945.

scholarly journals Three plants of the military history - polemochore plants of the Kaluga region

2020 ◽  
pp. 106-132
Author(s):  
Наталья Михайловна Решетникова ◽  
Андрей Викторович Щербаков ◽  
Екатерина Олеговна Королькова
Keyword(s):  
Species Composition ◽  
Military History ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Central European ◽  
Central Russia ◽  
Kaluga Region ◽  
The Military ◽  
Second World

В статье обсуждается произрастание центрально-европейских видов растений на месте расположения немецких войск на территории Калужской области (растения-полемохоры). Наибольшее число растений-полемохоров в регионе отмечено на трех участках - всего зарегистрировано 32 вида, по 18 видов на каждом. Описаны особенности военной истории и современное состояние для каждого из участков. Для каждого полемохорного вида приведено обилие и приуроченность к немецким укреплениям на изученной территории, распространение в области и в Средней России Совпадение состава видов в разных точках дислокации немецких войск, и отсутствии их на остальной территории области подтверждает их общее происхождение. Here we discuss the occurrence of Central European plants at the Second World War German troops' locations in the Kaluga Region (polemochore plants). The largest number of polemochore plants in the Region was recorded at three sites. There we found 32 species with 18 species on each. For each polemochore species, we give the abundance and proximity to German fortifications, as well as the distribution in the Kaluga Region and in Central Russia. The coincidence of the species composition in different locations of German troops and their absence in the rest of the Region confirms their polemochoral origin

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