Temporal and Geographic Context for Digital Books

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Temporal and Geographic Context for Digital Books
Ray R. Larson ECDL Books Online Workshop
2009 Credits Ryan Shaw, Michael Buckland,
Jeanette Zerneke, Fred Gey, Barry Pateman, Dan
Melia, Matthew Holmberg
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Born in Greene County, Tennessee, August 17,
1786, of Irish descent, his father having fought
in the revolutionary war. He commenced the active
duties of life, when twelve years old, by turning
drover, and, instead of going to school, he chose
the fortunes of an adventurer. He served under
General Jackson, in some of the Indian wars, and
became his fast friend.
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ltfoafPerson rdfnodeID"david_crockett"gt
ltrdfslabelgtDavid Crockettlt/rdfslabelgt
ltbioevent rdfnodeID"creek_war" /gt
lt/foafPersongt ltfoafPerson rdfnodeID"andrew_
jackson"gt ltrdfslabelgtAndrew
Jacksonlt/rdfslabelgt ltbioevent
rdfnodeID"creek_war" /gt lt/foafPersongt
ltbioEvent rdfnodeID"creek_war"gt
ltrdfslabelgtThe Creek Warlt/rdfslabelgt
ltbiodategtstart1813 end1814lt/biodategt
ltbioplace rdfresourcelink to gazetteer/gt
lt/bioEventgt
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RDF Vocabularies

• FOAF People
• BIO Biographical events
• GeoNames Places and spatial relationships
• Basic Geo Latitude and Longitude
• OWL-Time Temporal relationships
• Dublin Core Descriptions, dates, etc.

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Comment Facet genres include other
facets Library subject headings Topic
Geographic subdivision Chronological
subdivision Place name gazetteer Place name
Type Spatial markers (Lat long) When Time
Period Directory Period name Type Time
markers (Calendar) Where Biographical
Dictionary Person Activity type Time Where
Who else
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Building the functionality of a reference
collection. 1. Context finder Search support
from text to reference works. 2. Context
builder Make, retain notes and links to
reference works. 3. Context provider Make
reference works better by adding two-way links,
e.g. text has links to place name list AND place
name list has links to texts.
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Scanned text
Named Entities
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Cursor over a name highlights every mention of
that name in the text.
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Building the functionality of a reference
collection. 1. Context finder Search support
from text to reference works. 2. Context
builder Make, retain notes and links to
reference works. 3. Context provider Make
reference works better by adding two-way links,
e.g. text has links to place name list AND place
name list has links to texts.
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Named entities are linked to specific resources
or dynamic searches over relevant databases.
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Named entities not detected automatically can be
added manually.
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Google Earth Interfacesfor Events Data
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