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Spatial and Temporal Digital Libraries

  • Steve Maslennikov and
  • Chan Yee Seng
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Contents
  • Motivation
  • Search Interfaces
  • Name Entitie Extraction
  • Combination of Search Interfaces
  • Conclusion


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Motivation
  • Search in classical Digital Library (DL): keyword, classification, metadata
  • What if we want to search for photographs, maps, major historical events?
  • Search DL using characterizing attribute
  • Brings us to our topic…


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Motivation
  • Digital library is a good source for information
  • Problem: how to access?
  • Classical IR models don’t work well with long documents and other types of information (e.g. maps)




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Search Interfaces


  • Keyword


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Search Interfaces


  • Navigational Classification Hierarchy
  • Digital Library for Earth System Education
  • (DLESE)



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Search Interfaces
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Search Interfaces
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Search Interfaces


  • Timeline
  • Perseus Project


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Search Interfaces
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Search Interfaces


  • Informative Map-interface
  • Perseus Project
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Search Interfaces
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Search Interfaces
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Search Interfaces


  • Navigational Map-interface
  • Alexandria Digital Library (ADL)
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Search Interfaces
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Search Interfaces
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Importance of NE Extraction
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Before Generalization
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After Generalization
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Combination of Search Interfaces
  • map, classification, time period
  • Map provides navigation and specifies constraints
  • Visual information about categories
  • NE extraction adds new dimensions (DATE, LOC, NAME etc.)


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Conclusion
  • Search interface should be intuitive
  • Visual techniques show the content of very long documents with different types of information
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Some URLs
  • http://www.dlese.org/dds/index.jsp
  • http://webclient.alexandria.ucsb.edu/
  • http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/