The World Literature Knowledge Graph
Marco Antonio Stranisci Eleonora Bernasconi Viviana Patti Stefano Ferilli Miguel Ceriani Rossana Damiano
Digital media have enabled the access to unprecedented literary knowledge.
Authors, readers, and scholars are now able to discover and share an increasing
amount of information about books and their authors. However, these sources of
knowledge are fragmented and do not adequately represent non-Western writers
and their works. In this paper we present The World Literature Knowledge Graph,
a semantic resource containing 194,346 writers and 965,210 works, specifically
designed for exploring facts about literary works and authors from different
parts of the world. The knowledge graph integrates information about the
reception of literary works gathered from 3 different communities of readers,
aligned according to a single semantic model. The resource is accessible
through an online visualization platform, which can be found at the following
URL: https://literaturegraph.di.unito.it/. This platform has been rigorously
tested and validated by $3$ distinct categories of experts who have found it to
be highly beneficial for their respective work domains. These categories
include teachers, researchers in the humanities, and professionals in the
publishing industry. The feedback received from these experts confirms that
they can effectively utilize the platform to enhance their work processes and
achieve valuable outcomes.