AcademySampo system consists of two components. 1) The AcademySampo portal with its different application perspectives is targeted for human end-users for searching and exploring Finnish Academic People during 1640–1899. 2) The portal is based on the Linked Open Data service that publishes linked open data extracted from the student registries Ylioppilasmatrikkelit 1640–1852 and 1853–1899 of the Royal Academy of Turku and University of Helsinki, enriched with data linking and reasoning. The data service can be used freely for application development and is available at the Finnish Linked Data service LDF.fi.
AcademySampo is a living laboratory prototype on the Web. It has been developed by the Semantic Computing Research Group (SeCo) of Aalto University and University of Helsinki.
The student data is based on two main sources: