LadiesDebating_HTO: A Knowledge Graph for representing the "Edinburgh Ladies' Debating Society Digital Collection" (1865 - 1880) following Heritage Textual Ontology

This Knowlege Graph represents the information of the "Edinburgh Ladies’ Debating Society" (years: 1865 - 1880) collection in RDF (ttl format). This collection consists of the complete runs of two Edinburgh journals, ‘The Attempt’ (10 volumes, 1865-74) and its successor ‘The Ladies’ Edinburgh Magazine’ (6 volumes, 1875-80). These publications were produced by a leading Edinburgh women’s club, known during the period as the Edinburgh Essay Society or the Ladies’ Edinburgh Essay Society, but subsequently as the Ladies’ Edinburgh Debating Society. The Society existed from 1865 to 1935.  The raw dataset is provided by the NLS in this link. As  other NLS data collections, they are originally provided using two XMLs schemas: METS  for descriptive, structural, technical and administrative metadata (Title, Author, Publisher, etc); and ALTO  for encoding the OCR text of a page.

In this work, we have extracted the information from METS and ALTO XMLS using defoe tool. The KG uses the HTO to represent the information extracted. Furthermore, during the information extraction phase, we have employed several techniques to mitigate two common OCR errors: long-S and the line-break hyphenation.