Münster Semantic Interoperability Lab

The task for this thesis is to create Linked Open Data from historic parcel titles for the city of York, UK. These titles describe land ownership in the city of York. They are available as digital text documents. Place names, person names and spatial relations need to be extracted in order to annotate these documents with semantic descriptions to make them available for further reasoning, e.g. to find out where (on a map) the described parcel is, to analyze ownership changes across several centuries, etc.

Funding for a short-term stay in York is available. This topic is jointly supervised between MUSIL and the history department at University of York. Interested students should contact Carsten Keßler.

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