Deep History, Deepening Collaborations

29 What is the Knowledge Graph for Irish History? The Knowledge Graph for Irish History is a dynamic research tool enabling discovery of information about Ireland’s deep history. The power of the Knowledge Graph comes from its Semantic Web structure. The Graph can be imagined as an information network, in which historical data is organised into categories, classes and relationships. Unlike a conventional database, all data in the Knowledge Graph has a ‘meaning’ that a machine can interpret. In other words, raw information becomes knowledge—and this knowledge can power research and discovery. Knowledge Graph ‘Entities’ People, Places, offices, organizations which appear in our historical records People Places Offices Organizations Key datasets in the graph include: • Modern Place: over 60,000 modern place-names in a hierarchy of all counties, baronies, parishes and townlands in Ireland generating 1,450,640 triples • Early-Modern Place: approximately 44,000 early-modern place-names from seventeenth-century sources, interlinked with modern locations, generating 58,384 triples • Dictionary of Irish Biography: over 10,000 persons from the Dictionary of Irish Biography generating 581,596 triples • Medieval People: over 2,000 persons from c. 1200-1500 generating 76,099 triples.