Supporting Exploration of Historical Perspectives across Collections

Daan Odijk, Cristina Garbacea, Thomas Schoegje, Laura Hollink, Victor de Boer, Kees Ribbens, Jacco van Ossenbruggen

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Abstract

The ever growing number of textual historical collections calls for methods that can meaningfully connect and explore these. Different collections offer different perspectives, expressing views at the time of writing or even a subjective view of the author. We propose to connect heterogeneous digital collections through temporal references found in documents as well as their textual content. We evaluate our approach and find that it works very well on digital-native collections. Digitized collections pose interesting challenges and with improved preprocessing our approach performs well. We introduce a novel search interface to explore and analyze the connected collections that highlights different perspectives and requires little domain knowledge. In our approach, perspectives are expressed as complex queries. Our approach supports humanity scholars in exploring collections in a novel way and allows for digital collections to be more accessible by adding new connections and new means to access collections.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationResearch and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries - 19th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2015, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer/Verlag
Pages238-251
Number of pages14
Volume9316
ISBN (Print)9783319245911
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Event19th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2015 - Poznan, Poland
Duration: 14 Sept 201518 Sept 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9316
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference19th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2015
Country/TerritoryPoland
CityPoznan
Period14/09/1518/09/15

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