Mikko Koho is a postdoctoral researcher at the Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities (HELDIG) of the University of Helsinki and the Semantic Computing Research Group. He is a computer scientist, doing research in the interdisciplinary field of Digital Humanities. His research focuses on applying Semantic Web technologies to integrate and harmonize heterogeneous and distributed datasets as Linked Open Data (LOD), while developing tools for exploring, browsing, visualizing, and analyzing the integrated data.

Selected publications:

Mikko Koho, Esko Ikkala, Petri Leskinen, Minna Tamper, Jouni Tuominen and Eero Hyvönen: WarSampo Knowledge Graph: Finland in the Second World War as Linked Open Data. Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 265-278, January, 2021.

Mikko Koho, Petri Leskinen and Eero Hyvönen: Integrating Historical Person Registers as Linked Open Data in the WarSampo Knowledge Graph. Semantic Systems. In the Era of Knowledge Graphs. SEMANTiCS 2020 (Eva Blomqvist, Paul Groth, Victor de Boer, Tassilo Pellegrini, Mehwish Alam, Tobias Käfer, Peter Kieseberg, Sabrina Kirrane, Albert Meroño-Peñuela and Harshvardhan J. Pandit (eds.)), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 12378, pp. 118-126, Springer, Cham, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October, 2020.

Ikkala E., Koho M., Heino E., Leskinen P., Hyvönen E. and Ahoranta T.: Prosopographical Views to Finnish WW2 Casualties Through Cemeteries and Linked Open Data. Proceedings of the Workshop on Humanities in the Semantic Web (WHiSe II), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vienna, Austria, October, 2017.