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Abstract: In the field of Big Translation History, (historical) book translation flows are studied based on publication metadata. This research data is often kept internally or only provided as domain-specific MARC21 records, a standard library format. Within the recently completed BELTRANS project, we created a large integrated data corpus of worldwide translations between Dutch and French between 1970 and 2020, where at least one Belgian was involved as author, scenarist, illustrator or editor, to study intra-belgian book translation flows, and published the corpus as FAIR data. In this paper we present the SAMPO-UI-based platform that can be used by non-technical users to explore the underlying BELTRANS Linked Data corpus. The off-the-shelf software SAMPO-UI was configured to build a user interface allowing the exploration of our data related to book publications, authors, publishers and linked temporal and geospatial information. The different search perspectives, filters and visualizations enable researchers to explore the corpus or download self-chosen subsets, without having to process the large underlying data dumps. Both the application and corpus data are opened up in a sustainable way, i.e. besides deposits at research repositories, the application is hosted in the long term at the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR) and the integrated data is equipped with provenance information allowing to click-through to the related metadata records at different national libraries. Future work can extend the application itself with novel visualization techniques or different download formats if necessary. Also, this application can serve as a role model to inspire other researchers to distribute their corpora as Linked Data and via such a SAMPO-UI platform.
Cite this article:
@inproceedings{lieber2026beltrans,
author = {Lieber, Sven and Van Camp, Ann and Six, Joren and Birkholz, Julie M.},
title = {Explore {Intra-Belgian} book translation flows with a {SAMPO-UI}},
booktitle = {Posters, Demos, Blue Sky, and Tutorials at {SEMANTiCS} 2026},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
address = {Ghent, Belgium},
url = {https://0110.be/files/attachments/584/BELTRANS_SAMPO.pdf}
}
