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Graph Databases for the Organisation and Analysis of Digital Heritage
Abstract This paper presents an application of a labelled property graph database management system in order to model and analyse the political and economic network of two ministerialis families of the German Palatinate from the mid 12th century until the late-13th century. The Neo4j-based graph database provides an excellent platform for adding in information extracted from over 700 hundred charters, and dozens of historical texts, allowing one to assign unique properties to the different entities, and explore the interconnectivity between people, places, and events. This is made possible due to the database’s emphasis upon modelling relationships and their properties. The opportunity to visualise real interactions between individuals and proceedings, as an interactive network with descriptive properties ascribed to each entity and relationship, brings transparency to the multitude of factors impacting particular historical events. In this capacity, labelled property graph databases prove themselves invaluable as explorative, learning, and analysis tools for understanding the complexities of medieval society. Furthermore, such a database can be applied to a multitude of disciplines or case studies, for which this paper can provide a procedure for developing other projects.
Keywords Archives, Data Management, Digital Humanities, History, Modelling
