Međunarodno arhivističko savetovanje, Čačak, 9-11. oktobar 2019/International archival consultation conference, Čačak, 9-11 October 2019 Teme/Themes: „Arhivi u elektornskom okruženju“/Archives in elecronic environment Teme/Themes: Arhivska služba danas i u budućnosti. Aktuelna pitanja i problemi/Archival service today and in the future. Curent questions and problems

1. The Golden Agents project
Disambiguating Person Name Entities
Chiara Latronico, International Archival Conference, Čačak, 10-10-2019

2. Agenda
● About the Golden Agents project
● Amsterdam City Archive registries
● Transforming and basic interpreting. Processing and enriching the datasets.
● Disambiguating between Persons: Lenticular Lenses II
● Network analysis

3. About the Golden Agents
project

4. Partners
NWO-Large Infrastructure Project –
funding ca. $ 4 million budget € 6
million : 2017 – 2021 (5 years)

5. Golden Agents Infrastructure: Aim
Understanding the dynamics in the creative industries of the Dutch Golden Age
● By analyzing interactions between various branches of the creative industries
● By analyzing interactions between producers and consumers of the creative
industries

6. Problem 1 data about production of creative industries
dispersed over separated databases

7. Problem 2 lack of digital data about the consumption of the
creative industries of the Dutch Golden Age

8. Golden Agents: Infrastructure
● Combines Semantic Web and Multi Agents technology to analyze and to
interact with existing and new datasets (in linked data) about the
Dutch Golden Age
● Develops ontologies incorporating these dynamic interactions as storylines
and events in linked data
● Uses a combination of hand-written text recognition and crowdsourcing to
disclose 2 million scans of notary acts

9. Amsterdam City Archive
registries

10. Amsterdam City Archives Registies
● Notarial Acts (Notarieel archief)
● Baptism Registries (Doopregisters)
● Burial Registries (Begraafregisters)
● Prenuptial Agreements (Ondertrouwregisters)
● Transport Acts (Kwijtscheldingen)
● Confession Books (Confessieboeken)
● Burghers Books (Poorterboeken)
● Fines on marriage and burying (Boetes op trouwen en begraven)
https://www.amsterdam.nl/stadsarchief/organisatie/open-data/

11. Notarial Acts
● 3,5 km
● 731 notaries (1578-1915)
● 30.000 inventory n.
● 6.419.017 scans
● 783 volunteers
● Millions of deeds

12. Amsterdam City
Archives
Data Pipeline

13. Transforming and basic
interpreting. Processing and
enriching the datasets.

14. https://data.goldenagents.org/

15. Basic Conversion XML to RDF
● Golden Agent Ontology
○ PREFIX saaOnt:
<http://goldenagents.org/uva/SAA/ontology/>
■ saaOnt:identifier
■ saaOnt:mentionsBride
■ saaOnt:mentionsGroom
■ saaOnt:mentionsEarlierHusband
■ saaOnt:mentionsEarlierBride
○ Person names are stored as pnv:PersonName
■ No interpretation: PersonName = Name

16. Enrichment and Interpretation
● Event based data model
● PersonNames attached to Persons
● Relations between Persons are indicated
○ schema:spouse, bio:Marriage
● Implicit person mentions are added as Person
○ Child of
○ Widow of
● Georeferences are expressed with possible
geometries
● Further information structuring if needed
○ Splitting StringLiterals into individual resources
and types
● Duplicate records are removed.

17. Enrichment: Geo-Referencing
link to historical and contemporary map

20. Disambiguating between
Persons: Lenticular Lenses II

21. Disambiguating Person Names
One of the several experiments
● Prenuptial Agreements
● Baptism Registries
● ECARTICO
ECARTICO is a comprehensive collection of structured biographical data concerning painters, engravers, printers, book
sellers, gold- and silversmiths and others involved in the ‘cultural industries’ of the Low Countries in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. (http://www.vondel.humanities.uva.nl/ecartico/)

35. Contextual Entity Disambiguation in Domains with Weak Identity Criteria:
Disambiguating Golden Age Amsterdamers (Accepted)

36. Thank you!
Questions?
c.latronico@uva.nl