TY - GEN
T1 - Supporting Exploration of Historical Perspectives across Collections
AU - Odijk, Daan
AU - Garbacea, Cristina
AU - Schoegje, Thomas
AU - Hollink, Laura
AU - de Boer, Victor
AU - Ribbens, Kees
AU - van Ossenbruggen, Jacco
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-24592-8_18
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-24592-8_18
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9783319245911
VL - 9316
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 238
EP - 251
BT - Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries - 19th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2015, Proceedings
PB - Springer/Verlag
T2 - 19th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2015
Y2 - 14 September 2015 through 18 September 2015
ER -