The URW-KG: a Resource for Tackling the Underrepresentation of non-Western Writers

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Digital media have enabled the access to unprecedented literary knowledge.

• Authors, readers, and scholars are now able to discover and share an increasing amount of information about books and their authors.
• Notwithstanding, digital archives are still unbalanced: writers from non-Western countries are less represented, and such a condition leads to the perpetration of old forms of discrimination.
• In this paper, we present the Under-Represented Writers Knowledge Graph (URW-KG), a resource designed to explore and possibly amend this lack of representation by gathering and mapping information about works and authors from Wikidata and three other sources: Open Library, Goodreads, and Google Books.