EncycNet
Published March 26, 2025 | Version 0.3
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EncycNet: A Knowledge Graph of Historical German Encyclopedias

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
  • 2. ROR icon University of Cologne
  • 3. ROR icon Leibniz Institute for the German Language

Description

EncycNet is an automatically constructed knowledge graph that uses historical German encyclopedias as a data source. You can read more about the project here: https://encycnet.github.io/

The first version of the graph (0.1) contains Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon (1905), with 5 more encyclopedias to be added in 2024. Formatted in RDF Turtle.

The second version of the graph (0.2) contains 3 encyclopedias in total, meaning triples were changed to quads (see code example at https://github.com/EncycNet/Encyc-Relations):

  • Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon (1905)
  • Herders Conversations-Lexikon (1854)
  • Brockhaus Bilder-Conversations-Lexikon (1837)

The second version also handled some bug fixes concerning wrongly matched Wikidata entries.

The third version (0.3) now additionally contains

  • Brockhaus Conversations-Lexikon oder kurzgefaßtes Handwörterbuch (1809)

It also impoved some namespace issues and introduced P8371 as encyclopedic refeferences in this case.

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Dataset: 10.5281/zenodo.4039569 (DOI)