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Plale, Beth; McDonald, Robert H.; Sun, Yiming; Kouper, Inna; Cobine, Ryan; Downie, J. Stephen; Namachchivaya, Beth Sandore; Unsworth, John

doi:10.1145/2467696.2467767

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“…The recent wave of data-intensive science has motivated many high-profile library big data projects, notably the ambitious plan to archive all tweets at the Library of Congress [13], the heterogeneous and geographicallyreplicated archival storage known as the Digital Preservation Network (DPN) [15], the data mining facility at the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) [12], and the metadata hubs developed at the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) [4] and the SHARE initiative [14]. Many more are being developed or being planned.…”

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Advancing library cyberinfrastructure for big data sharing and reuse

Xie

Fox

2017

ISU

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Abstract. Data-intensive science presents new opportunities as well as challenges to research libraries. The cyberinfrastructural challenge, although chiefly technological, also involves social-economic and human factors, therefore requires a deep understanding of what roles research libraries should play in the research lifecycle. This paper discusses the rationale and motivations behind a research project to investigate effective library big data cyberinfrastructure strategies.

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confidence: 99%

Advancing library cyberinfrastructure for big data sharing and reuse

Xie

Fox

2017

ISU

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Challenges and strategies for beginners to solve research questions with DH methodologies on a corpus of multilingual Philippine periodicals

Casanova

2020

Benjamins Translation Library

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A usually mentioned problem in Digital Humanities (DH) is the difficult fit between Humanities research questions and DH methodologies. This chapter is therefore configured as a meta-chapter that explains the problems and strategies when exploring the multilingual repository of Philippine periodicals constructed within the project “Strenghthening Digital Research at the UP System” in order to research the evolution of the image of China in these periodicals. The two main challenges found for analysing the periodicals to find an answer have been (1) Problematic OCRs, (2) Research across multi-lingual publications. The chapter lists literature and research projects that have approached similar questions and challenges in comparable corpora. Some suggestions of tools to address them will also be provided.

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Improving Accessibility of Archived Raster Dictionaries of Complex Script Languages

Alam

Mehmood

Nelson

2015

Proceedings of the 15th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

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We propose an approach to index raster images of dictionary pages which in turn would require very little manual effort to enable direct access to the appropriate pages of the dictionary for lookup. Accessibility is further improved by feedback and crowdsourcing that enables highlighting of the specific location on the page where the lookup word is found, annotation, digitization, and fielded searching. This approach is equally applicable on simple scripts as well as complex writing systems. Using our proposed approach, we have built a Web application called "Dictionary Explorer" which supports word indexes in various languages and every language can have multiple dictionaries associated with it. Word lookup gives direct access to appropriate pages of all the dictionaries of that language simultaneously. The application has exploration features like searching, pagination, and navigating the word index through a tree-like interface. The application also supports feedback, annotation, and digitization features. Apart from the scanned images, "Dictionary Explorer" aggregates results from various sources and user contributions in Unicode. We have evaluated the time required for indexing dictionaries of different sizes and complexities in the Urdu language and examined various tradeoffs in our implementation. Using our approach, a single person can make a dictionary of 1,000 pages searchable in less than an hour.

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Advancing library cyberinfrastructure for big data sharing and reuse

Advancing library cyberinfrastructure for big data sharing and reuse

Challenges and strategies for beginners to solve research questions with DH methodologies on a corpus of multilingual Philippine periodicals

Improving Accessibility of Archived Raster Dictionaries of Complex Script Languages

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