The purpose of this research is to construct a Linked Open Data (LOD) set on the March First Movement and to demonstrate its application.
The March First Movement of 1919 was an important event in Korean history. However, there is no integrated datab...
The purpose of this research is to construct a Linked Open Data (LOD) set on the March First Movement and to demonstrate its application.
The March First Movement of 1919 was an important event in Korean history. However, there is no integrated database that can effectively find and use related information about such a significant event. Moreover, public awareness of the March First Movement is generally focused on the events that occurred in Seoul. Facts about rural demonstrations are often not fully illuminated, as they are only covered in academic research. Therefore, I saw a need to create an LOD set about the March First Movement for users to conveniently access and utilize information about the various demonstrations that occurred throughout the country.
In this research, I analyzed target resources and digital content, collected and organized data, established a developmental strategy of the March First digital content, designed an ontology and constructed an LOD set, and finally, presented the measures to utilize the Linked Open Data.
Information about the March First Movement, especially the significance of its contents, is not properly reflected in the limited digital encyclopedias or other historical resources. There are also limitations in gathering relevant information together and viewing them because they were all distributed on different websites. In this research, I referenced the encyclopedic archive, Encyves, which combines raw data and knowledge, as a model for integrating and correlating this scattered information. I proposed the use of Linked Open Data as the way to concretely implement a digital archive suitable for the subject of the March First Movement.
Basic data on rural demonstrations of the March First Movement were collected and organized to establish the LOD. I organized information about the March First Movement’s historic sites and people and used this to construct new items of event data. In addition, web resources that reference such elements as people, sites, and events, were collected and linked to each piece of data.
An ontology suitable for describing the March First Movement was designed in order to correlate the collected and organized data points with each other. In particular, the descriptive vocabulary associated with 'incidents' was designed to represent diverse relationships of the movement protests. The relationships between events and events were subdivided into development, derivation, revenge, and plan. The relationships between events and historical sites were adopted to capture the spatial changes in the demonstration by adopting the concept of order to the start, progress, and end locations.
Based on the designed ontology, this research figured out a way to construct and utilize LOD. Using the connected data, I propose a method for users to conveniently obtain the information they want and envisioned the possibility of finding new knowledge that can be realized through linkage with other LODs in the future.
The March First Movement LOD developed in this research is expected to increase accessibility to information about the March First Movement and help users efficiently find related resources. If knowledge and materials from various aspects such as economy, geography and religion, as well as rural demonstrations, can be combined with the March First Movement data, a richer information search will be possible through LOD. Also, once the investigation is conducted on the historic sites of the March First Movement in North Korea, adding them to the data currently limited to the South will be a significant follow-up task.