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Temporal and Geographic Context for Digital Books

Explore the significance of temporal and geographic context in digital books, enhancing reference collection functionality by linking entities to resources and databases.

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Temporal and Geographic Context for Digital Books

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  1. Temporal and Geographic Contextfor 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

  2. 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.

  3. <foaf:Person rdf:nodeID="david_crockett"> <rdfs:label>David Crockett</rdfs:label> <bio:event rdf:nodeID="creek_war" /> </foaf:Person> <foaf:Person rdf:nodeID="andrew_jackson"> <rdfs:label>Andrew Jackson</rdfs:label> <bio:event rdf:nodeID="creek_war" /> </foaf:Person> <bio:Event rdf:nodeID="creek_war"> <rdfs:label>The Creek War</rdfs:label> <bio:date>start=1813; end=1814;</bio:date> <bio:place rdf:resource=”link to gazetteer”/> </bio:Event>

  4. 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.

  5. 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

  6. 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.

  7. Scanned text Named Entities

  8. Cursor over a name highlights every mention of that name in the text.

  9. 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.

  10. Named entities are linked to specific resources or dynamic searches over relevant databases.

  11. Named entities not detected automatically can be added manually.

  12. Google Earth Interfacesfor Events Data

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