Accessing the alexandria digital library from geographic information systems

Ancona, Dan; Frew, James; Janée, Greg; Valentine, D. W.

doi:10.1145/996350.996369

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“…Since then, skills in this area (Vardakosta et al , 2016) have been systematically developed. Librarians use GIS to collect, manage, preserve, access and analyze digital data and resources (Argentati, 1997; Ancona et al , 2004; Sedighi, 2012). They develop geospatial collections and explore their efficient use as required by the current information environment (Vardakosta and Kapidakis, 2016).…”

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The CENDARI infrastructure in GIS-based historical research

Mościcka

2017

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a way of using already existing archival resources in the geographic information system (GIS). Design/methodology/approach The essence of the methodology used was to identify semantic relations of archival documents with geographical space and develop their metadata into spatially related metadata, ready to use in GIS and to join geographical names occurring in these metadata with exact places to which they were related to. Research was based on two digital collections from the Library of Contemporary History in Stuttgart on-line service. These collections were related to the First World War and they included metadata prepared in MAB standard. Findings As the results of the research, two sample metadata sets related to posters and ration coupons were developed. Thesauruses of coordinates of places and regions mentioned in documents metadata in different semantic context were also created. To complete the methodology, the assumptions of the GIS structure and concept of applying metadata in them, have been proposed. Research limitations/implications The research also presents limitations in effective implementation of the proposed solutions, which lie mainly in lack of rules and consequences in recording geographical names in metadata. Originality/value The value of the proposed solution is easy way of using already existing data in GIS and possibilities of gathering, managing, presenting and analyzing archives with one parameter more than in traditional databases – with spatial information. The added value and an effective use of already collected data lies in the strong recommendation of defining and implementation of rules for recording geographical names in archival documents metadata. This will help in a wide use of collected data in any spatial-based solutions as well as in automation of process of joining archives with geographical space, and finally in dissemination of collected resources.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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The CENDARI infrastructure in GIS-based historical research

Mościcka

2017

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“…Although advanced features for searching and browsing are available, DLs provide, at best, limited support for sharing the retrieved content to other applications that support learning [1]. Exceptions are query and data dissemination services through various protocols such as Z39.50 [10] and OAI [7] but these are usually between other DLs instead of with an integrated learning environment.…”

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confidence: 99%