https://SingPioneers.sg

Version 1 launched in Dec 2021: https://SingPioneers.sg

The project sought to explore the social networks of selected pioneers in post-war Singapore, using Singapore Infopedia, the National Library Board’s electronic encyclopedia on Singapore, to map the characteristics of pioneers including relationship types (e.g., kinship, business, industry, cultural, etc.) and entities (e.g., schools, organisations, activities, and places) that mediate these relationships.

Version 1 of the system features 20 SingPioneers with a handcrafted knowledge graph. Work is ongoing to develop an automatic information extraction program to extract information from over 400 biographies to populate the knowledge graph and social network.

Based on research by Ng Siam Gek as a National Library Digital Fellow with the National Library Board, Singapore, in collaboration with Chris Khoo (Nanyang Technological University).