From Queries to Narratives: Cultural Heritage Data Stories for Knowledge Graph Exploration and Quality Assessment

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11403v1
• Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:34:36 GMT
• Title: From Queries to Narratives: Cultural Heritage Data Stories for Knowledge Graph Exploration and Quality Assessment
• Abstract summary: Cultural-heritage KGs contain millions of triples about artworks, music, inscriptions, historical events, and the people and places connected to them.<n>For many users, discovering this knowledge can be difficult.<n>We present data stories as a way not only to lower this barrier, but also to turn exploration into data-quality assessment.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Cultural-heritage KGs such as the NFDI4Culture-KG contain millions of triples about artworks, music, inscriptions, historical events, and the people and places connected to them. For many users, however, discovering this knowledge can be difficult. While SPARQL can be learned, writing meaningful queries first requires an in-depth understanding of the graph's data model, an investment many domain researchers and practitioners are unwilling to make. Even with existing user interfaces, a starting point and some guidance are usually needed, because the data contained in the graph is highly specialized, heterogeneous, and constantly growing, making it challenging to know what it contains or which questions it can answer. In this paper, we present data stories as a way not only to lower this barrier, but also to turn exploration into data-quality assessment, and thus combine accessible querying with the discovery of issues that remain hidden in aggregate statistics. In this contribution, a data story is understood as a narrative document that integrates explanatory text and images with executable SPARQL queries and their visualized results. It is described how they are authored against the graph and how they serve several purposes: guiding users through an unfamiliar graph, creating reproducible narratives, and surfacing data-quality issues previously hidden in aggregate statistics. The authoring platform LODEON including its Sparnatural and AI-supported authoring assistants is introduced as a proof-of-concept. Within the authoring environment, every claim made about the data can be backed by an explicit query, making these narratives transparent and reproducible. This paper also reflects on lessons learned from hands-on seminars and workshops. Early experience suggests that such data stories make cultural-heritage knowledge graphs more accessible for both exploration and quality assessment.

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