Building a hypertextual digital library in the humanities

Crane, Gregory; Smith, David A.; Wulfman, Clifford E.

doi:10.1145/379437.379756

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“…In response to problems of this sort, Crane has observed the need for subsystems within digital collections that support two-stage collection development processes that alternate automated and human involvement. His examples include tagging a corpus as part of the editorial process [8], and automatically generating links to external datasets from elements within a large digital library collection [9]. The first stage is conducted automatically by a software agent or other subsystem.…”

Section: Digital Collectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Elimination of junk document surrogate candidates through pattern recognition

Koh

Caruso

Kerne

et al. 2007

Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

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A surrogate is an object that stands for a document and enables navigation to that document. Hypermedia is often represented with textual surrogates, even though studies have shown that image and text surrogates facilitate the formation of mental models and overall understanding. Surrogates may be formed by breaking a document down into a set of smaller elements, each of which is a surrogate candidate. While processing these surrogate candidates from an HTML document, relevant information may appear together with less useful junk material, such as navigation bars and advertisements. This paper develops a pattern recognition based approach for eliminating junk while building the set of surrogate candidates. The approach defines features on candidate elements, and uses classification algorithms to make selection decisions based on these features. For the purpose of defining features in surrogate candidates, we introduce the Document Surrogate Model (DSM), a streamlined Document Object Model (DOM)-like representation of semantic structure. Using a quadratic classifier, we were able to eliminate junk surrogate candidates with an average classification rate of 80%. By using this technique, semiautonomous agents can be developed to more effectively generate surrogate collections for users. We end by describing a new approach for hypermedia and the semantic web, which uses the DSM to define value-added surrogates for a document.

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Section: Digital Collectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Elimination of junk document surrogate candidates through pattern recognition

Koh

Caruso

Kerne

et al. 2007

Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

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“…Perseus has a philosophy of starting with simple mark-up (concerning morphology, or the tagging of proper names of places and persons on the basis of different authority lists ), successively taking advantage from each information layer, without immediately striving for a perfectly encoded text. Crane has well documented this strategy (Crane, Smith and Wulfman, 2001):…”

Section: Perseusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Past, present and future of historical information science

Boonstra¹,

Breure²,

Doorn³

2006

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This report evaluates the impact of two decades of research within the framework of history and computing, and sets out a research paradigm and research infrastructure for future historical information science. It is good to see that there has been done a lot of historical information r esearch in the past; much of it has been done, however, outside the field of history and computing, and not within a community like the Association for History and Computing. The reason is that the AHC never made a clear statement about what audience to address: historians with an interest in computing, or historical information scientists. As a r esult, both parties have not been accommodated, and communications with both 'traditional' history and 'information science' have not been established. A proper research program, based on new developments in information science, is proposed, along with an unambiguous scientific research infrastructure.Chapter 1. Introduction "The historian who refuses to use a computer as being unnecessary, ignores vast areas of historical research and will not be taken serious anymore" (Boonstra, Breure and Doorn, 1990).When we wrote the lines above, fifteen years ago, we sensed that, with the coming of the computer, not only new areas of historical research would be opened, but also that computers would be able to help find solutions to many of the information problems that are so distinctive to historical science. * Address all communications to: Onno Boonstra, Leen Breure and Peter Doorn, NIWI, Postbus 41950, 1009 DD Amsterdam, the Netherlands; e-mail: o.boonstra@let.kun.nl, leen@cs.uu.nl , peter.doorn@niwi.knaw.nl . The online version of this report is also available on: http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/nl/ geschiedenis/onderzoek/onderzoeksprojecten/past_present_future_of_historical_information _science/draft_report/toonplaatje. 5Nowadays, information problems in historical research still exist and are still vast and very varied. They range from textual pro blems (what is the word that is written on this thirteenth-century manuscript? what does it mean? to which issue does it relate? why was it put there? why was the text written? who was the author? who was supposed to read the manuscript? why has it survived?) and linkage problems (is this Lars Erikson, from this register, the same man as the Lars Eriksson, from this other register?), to data structuring pro blems (how can historical contextual information be kept as metadata in a XMLdatabase?), interpretation problems (from this huge amount of digital records, is it possible to discern patterns that add to our knowledge of history?) and visualisation problems (how do you put time-varying information on a historical map?).But this does not mean that nothing has been achieved over the last two decades. On the contrary, hundreds of research projects have been initiated to tackle problems like these. Historians, linguists, literary scholars, information scientists, they all have done their share in making historical information science grow and flo...

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“…Similar to the way in which McGann critiqued the copy-text approach to textual criticism for selecting an authoritative central text and describing its differences with other, marginalized texts [9], a biography can be seen as establishing a centered, "authoritative" narrative of the author's life, relegating other possibly significant elements to the margins. While this may be useful for many purposes, one of the key advantages of developing a digital archive is to assist scholars (and the public) in finding their own way through the available information developing and utilizing their own unique interpretive perspectives [3]. Set in the context of a digital library, research into the life of the author can benefit not only from the explicitly biographical information commonly provided, but also from the other information in the archives supporting historical research and information about the contemporary cultural context of the author.…”

Section: The Author's Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Few projects focused on the life and work of a single author have access to collections of the scope of, for example, the Perseus Project's London collection [3] or the resources to digitize it. Thus, the primary considerations become identifying appropriately sized collections that are be available and closely related to the author's life and works.…”

Section: Historical Documentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating Diverse Research in a Digital Library Focused on a Single Author

Audenaert

Furuta

Urbina

et al. 2005

Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries

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Abstract. The works of a significant author are accompanied by a variety of artifacts ranging from the scholarly to the popular. In order to better support the needs of the scholarly community, digital libraries focused on the life and works of a particular author must be designed to assemble, integrate, and present the full scope of these artifacts. Drawing from our experiences with the Cervantes Project, we describe five intersecting domains that are common to similarly focused humanities research projects. Integrating the tools needed and the artifacts produced by each of these domains enables digital libraries to provide unique connections between diverse research communities.

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Building a hypertextual digital library in the humanities

Cited by 22 publications

References 19 publications

Elimination of junk document surrogate candidates through pattern recognition

Elimination of junk document surrogate candidates through pattern recognition

Past, present and future of historical information science

Integrating Diverse Research in a Digital Library Focused on a Single Author

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