From Books to Knowledge Graphs

The digital transformation of the scientific publishing industry has led todramatic improvements in content discoverability and information analytics.Unfortunately, these improvements have not been uniform across research areas.The scientific literature in the arts, humanities and social sciences (AHSS)still lags behind, in part due to the scale of analog backlogs, the persistingimportance of national languages, and a publisher ecosystem made of many, smallor medium enterprises. We propose a bottom-up approach to support publishers increating and maintaining their own publication knowledge graphs in the opendomain. We do so by releasing a pipeline able to extract structured informationfrom the bibliographies and indexes of AHSS publications, disambiguate,normalize and export it as linked data. We test the proposed pipeline onBrill's Classics collection, and release an implementation in open source forfurther use and improvement