Enriched Access to a Large War Historical Text using

the Back of the Book Index

Victor de Boer, Johan van Doornik, Lars Buitinck, Kees Ribbens, and Tim Veken

VU University Amsterdam v.de.boer@vu.nl

National war thesaurus

botb:Amsterdam

niod:botb-Blitzkrieg niod:botb-Blitzkrieg

Blitzkrieg

http://resolver.verrijktkoninkrijk.nl/nl.vk.d.reg.4.1386

botb:Blitzkrieg

bb_ww2:oai_wo2_niod_nl_rec_102045

GeoNames

Back-of-the-Book Index

Verrijkt Koninkrijk(Enriched Kingdom) - Victor de Boer - VU University Amsterdam - v.de.boer@vu.nl

PREFIX niod: <http://purl.org/collections/nl/niod/> prefix dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> PREFIX skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> SELECT DISTINCT ?pageref ?province WHERE { ?subj <http://www.geonames.org/ontology#parentADM1> ?province ?bc skos:closeMatch ?subj. ?bc skos:inScheme niod:BotBScheme. ?bc niod:pageRef ?pageref. }

SPARQL for R

http://eculture.cs.vu.nl:1914/sparql

“How did Loe de Jong deal with pillarization and group identity across the various volumes?”