Alfred Myrne Blåder

Mapping the Past: Geographically Linking an Early 20th Century Swedish Encyclopedia with Wikidata

In this paper, we describe the extraction of all the location entries from a prominent Swedish encyclopedia from the early 20th century, the Nordisk Familjebok ‘Nordic Family Book’, focusing on the second edition called Uggleupplagan. This edition comprises 38 volumes and over 182,000 articles, maki…