Re: Reconciliation API Implementation at Swiss Art Research Infrastructure (SARI)

Thanks so much Wolfgang and team for providing this valuable service.
Looking forward to trying it out!

Thad
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On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 11:09 AM ws@metaphacts.com <ws@metaphacts.com>
wrote:

> Dear all,
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> I would like to announce that the Reconciliation API is implemented at the
> Reference Data Service (RDS) hosted by Swiss Art Research Infrastructure
> (SARI, https://swissartresearch.net/).
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> The idea is to provide a couple of reference data sets such as AAT, ULAN,
> GND, GeoNames and Wikidata as a hosted service for researchers in the
> Digital Humanities.
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> Find the system in action here: https://rds.swissartresearch.net/
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> There is now also an entry in the testbench (currently only configured for
> JSONP).
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> [image: Unified access to connected datasets through a Google-like
> interface]
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> The lookup uses the underlying RDF database's native search facilities and
> is quite configurable and flexible. As an example, the setup for RDS is
> based on Blazegraph with native indexing and searching with each dataset
> stored in a separate named graph whereas Wikidata is accessed via
> federation.
>
> To support disambiguation we generate descriptions per entity type based
> on a set of properties, e.g. for a person this might include their country
> of origin, affiliation and life span, for other entity types other
> properties.
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> Besides simple lookup of entities we also show cross-links between
> datasets. The cross-links are materialized based on the various interlinks
> between datasets. This makes use of a custom extension to the result format
> (a new field "reference" which may point to another entry which we use to
> group related entries together).
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> Additionally, researchers can collect their own data in their own
> "satellite" system (a so-called RDS-local instance)  and contribute that
> data to the central hub for others to reuse it. This makes use of a
> federated reconciliation approach based on the Reconciliation API.
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> The software was developed by metaphacts in collaboration with the
> University of Zürich (UZH). We have a blog post which describes the system
> in more detail:
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> https://blog.metaphacts.com/an-interconnected-system-for-reference-data
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>
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> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang
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> Wolfgang Schell
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> Principal Software Architect
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