# Knowledge Graphs in the Libraries and Digital Humanities Domain

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03198 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1803.03198/

## Key facts

- Cited by 6 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 8 Mar 2018.

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- [Bottom-up Anytime Discovery of Generalised Multimodal Graph Patterns for Knowledge Graphs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.05839/) (2024)
- [Mind the Language Gap in Digital Humanities: LLM-Aided Translation of SKOS Thesauri](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.19537/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Knowledge graphs represent concepts (e.g., people, places, events) and their semantic relationships. As a data structure, they underpin a digital information system, support users in resource discovery and retrieval, and are useful for navigation and visualization purposes. Within the libaries and humanities domain, knowledge graphs are typically rooted in knowledge organization systems, which have a century-old tradition and have undergone their digital transformation with the advent of the Web and Linked Data. Being exposed to the Web, metadata and concept definitions are now forming an interconnected and decentralized global knowledge network that can be curated and enriched by community-driven editorial processes. In the future, knowledge graphs could be vehicles for formalizing and connecting findings and insights derived from the analysis of possibly large-scale corpora in the libraries and digital humanities domain.