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Mahsa Vafaie: National Socialist Injustice on the Semantic Web: From Archival Records to a Knowledge Graph

The project “Wiedergutmachung nationalsozialistischen Unrechts” (eng. “Reparations for National Socialist Injustice”), funded by the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF), aims to provide centralised, structured and comprehensive digital access to documents and data sources from the context of reparations for injustices committed under National Socialism in Germany. The resulting thematic portal addresses a broad and diverse range of target groups, and accordingly consists of several modules: historical-political education, an overview of the relevant file holdings, and most significantly, a knowledge graph representing archival materials, procedures and individuals involved in the reparation process.

In this talk, I will present our ongoing work toward developing an optimised workflow for constructing this knowledge graph from information extracted from millions of archival records associated with the “Wiedergutmachung” process. I will also outline our data model, which integrates the extracted content together with the provenance data. The proposed workflow includes steps such as converting document images to machine-readable formats, extracting information with multimodal large language models, and designing an ontology based on competency questions. Leveraging both traditional methods and nascent technologies, our approach addresses unique challenges inherent to historical documents and aims to make this critical chapter of history more accessible and analysable.

Vortrag im Rahmen des „Digital History“-Forschungskolloquiums
Zeit: Mittwoch, 07. May 2025, 16-18 Uhr
Ort: Zoom-Konferenz (Zugang auf Anfrage oder via Mailingliste)


OpenEdition schlägt Ihnen vor, diesen Beitrag wie folgt zu zitieren:
Digital History Berlin (Redaktion) (30. April 2025). Mahsa Vafaie: National Socialist Injustice on the Semantic Web: From Archival Records to a Knowledge Graph. Digital History Berlin. Abgerufen am 13. Mai 2025 von https://doi.org/10.58079/13uw1


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