We are very happy to report that our collaborators at the GOLEM project have been making huge strides towards their goal of creating a comprehensive knowledge graph to enable the large-scale quantitative exploration of stories, characters and events in fanfiction narratives.
A detailed documentation and dedicated GitHub repository for version 1.0 of the GOLEM Ontology (an “ontology of fiction and narrative, developed as an extension of CIDOC-CRM and LRMoo, and aligned to DOLCE-Lite-Plus“) are both available.
Furthermore, different parts of the GOLEM project data are also open to explore online. A SPARQL endpoint is available for the triple store of the metadata of over eight million stories from AO3, see the paper on the GOLEM Triple Store for further details. More granular information on a smaller subset of these fanfictions have also been turned into a knowledge graph using the GOLEM ontology.
Combining data from the GOLEM and JVMG projects enables examinations at the crossroads of fanfiction and the anime-manga domain, such as the pilot project we presented at FanLIS 2024: Building Bridges II, which is also available open access in Volume 11 Issue 1 of the Proceedings from the Document Academy: “Utilizing Metadata from Heterogeneous Sources within the Framework of the JVMG and GOLEM Projects to Identify Patterns in Anime-based Fandoms on AO3.” We are very much looking forward to even more joint explorations of the data in the two projects and the further refinement of our respective ontologies and knowledge graphs.