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  • Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative Computer Applications in Archaeology Joint Conference, Williamsburg, Making History Interactive, March 22-27, 2009.ECAI Session: Inventing Paths in Digital Data.

    Empowering Readers to Find Explanations:A What Where When Who Approach

    Michael BucklandECAI & School of Information,University of California, Berkeley

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  • Textwith a interesting details.Who was she?Where is that?What is this?What else was happening?Reader(or Writer)ResourcesEncyclopediasAtlases, place nameBiographical dictionariesDictionariesLibrary catalogStatistical seriesetc., etc. . . . . In a paper environment, a library is a good place to read and to write because explanations are available.How do we move this situation into an internet environment?

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  • Emanuel Goldberg, b. Moscow, 1881; son of Grigorii Goldberg; Univ. of Moscow, 1900-04; Ph.D w. Robert Luther, Leipzig Univ., 1906; Assistant, Adolf Miethe, TU Charlottenburg, 1906-07; Prof, Akad. f. graphische Knste, Leipzig, 1907-17; ICA, Zeiss Ikon, Dresden, 1917-1933; Kinamo cine camera, 1921; microdots, 1925; search engine, 1927; Contax 35 mm camera 1932; kidnapped by Nazi SA; refugee in Paris, 1933-37; Laboratory, Palestine, Israel, 1937; d. 1970.WHO? Click a name to search for an internet resource.

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  • Emanuel Goldberg, b. Moscow, 1881; son of Grigorii Goldberg; Univ. of Moscow, 1900-04; Ph.D w. Robert Luther, Leipzig Univ., 1906; Assistant, Adolf Miethe, TU Charlottenburg, 1906-07; Prof, Akad. f. graphische Knste, Leipzig, 1907-17; ICA, Zeiss Ikon, Dresden, 1917-1933; Kinamo cine camera, 1921; microdots, 1925; search engine, 1927; Contax 35 mm camera 1932; kidnapped by Nazi SA; refugee in Paris, 1933-37; Laboratory, Palestine, Israel, 1937; d. 1970.WHERE?

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  • Emanuel Goldberg, b. Moscow, 1881; son of Grigorii Goldberg; Univ. of Moscow, 1900-04; Ph.D w. Robert Luther, Leipzig Univ., 1906; Assistant, Adolf Miethe, TU Charlottenburg, 1906-07; Prof, Akad. f. graphische Knste, Leipzig, 1907-17; ICA, Zeiss Ikon, Dresden, 1917-1933; Kinamo cine camera, 1921; microdots, 1925; search engine, 1927; Contax 35 mm camera 1932; kidnapped by Nazi SA; refugee in Paris, 1933-37; Laboratory, Palestine, Israel, 1937; d. 1970.WHAT?

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  • Building the functionality of a reference collection.1. Context finder: Search support from text to reference works.2. Context builder: Make, retain notes and links to reference works.3. Context provider: Make reference works better by adding two-way links, e.g. text has links to place name list AND place name list has links to texts.Demos at http://metadata.berkeley.edu/demos/

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  • Initial sketch for Context Finding / Building interface.

    Save search pathSave link & notes as stand-off markup.Save link & notes as embedded mark-up.Insert / block textDefine facetRanked lists of suggested resources for each facet chosenDisplay of search result

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  • Reference Genre VocabularyDisplays FacetEncyclopedia TopicsCross-references WHATAtlas, place list PlacesMaps WHEREChronology Time Timelines WHENBiogr. Dictionary PersonsRelationships WHODifferent genres for different facets require different vocabularies, different display requirementsDifferentiation by What, Where, When and Who aids disambiguation.Work in progress of feasibility and desirability of decomposing Whos Who style biographical texts into life events encoded as 4W-tuple: Actions and activities encoded by What kind of action/activity; Where; When; and involving Who [else]Search interestReasons for using WHERE, WHEN, WHO, and WHAT

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  • Comment: Facet genres include other facetsEncyclopedia or library catalogTopic Geographic aspects Chronological aspects

    Place name gazetteerPlace name Type Spatial markers (Lat & long) When

    Time Period DirectoryPeriod name Type Time markers (Calendar) Where

    Biographical DictionaryPerson Activity type Time Where Who else

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  • Facet genres with facets realigned: Associations.

    What Where When WhoWHAT (Library catalog) X XXX

    WHERE (Place name list)XXXX

    WHEN (Time period dir.)XXX X

    WHO (Biographical dict.) XXXX

    From LCSH Lighthouses to NGA Place name list Geographic Description Code Lthse (Lighthouse). Place name list give locations of examples. Catalog gives literature about light houses.

    Vertical: Semantic mappings to same facet resources.Horizontal: Association with other facets provides context.

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  • CORPUSFRAGMENTCONTEXTContext Finder: Ad hoc searches. Looking outwards, not inwards!Reference works

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  • Reading online, The Irish Review, 1911, with place names already identified. Click on Westport, then on links to more info.

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  • Building the functionality of a reference collection.1. Context finder: Search support from text to reference works.2. Context builder: Make, retain notes and links to reference works.3. Context provider: Make reference works better by adding two-way links, e.g. text has links to place name list AND place name list has links to texts.

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  • CORPUSFRAGMENTCONTEXTContext Builder: Query, source, result saved as markup in text; and in notes.Reference work

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  • The case of editing of historical papers . . . -- Slow publication -- Very limited footnotes, most editorial research not revealed -- Duplicative, overlapping editorial researchThe constraints of the printed codex!Web-published editors notes, as low-cost byproduct.

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  • Building the functionality of a reference collection.1. Context finder: Search support from text to reference works.2. Context builder: Making, retaining notes / links to reference works.3. Context provider: Enriching reference works by adding reverse links, e.g. place name gazetteer mentions where a place is mentioned in texts.

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  • CORPUSFRAGMENTCONTEXTContext Provider: Also reverse links from resource back to text. Now two-way!Reference work

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  • Facet Vocabulary Displays Reference GenreWHAT Topics Cross-references EncyclopediaWHERE PlacesMaps Atlas, place listWHEN PeriodsTimeline ChronologyWHO PersonsRelationships Biogr.dictionaryReference Genre VocabularyDisplays FacetEncyclopedia TopicsCross-references WHATAtlas, place list PlacesMaps WHEREChronology Time Timelines WHENBiogr. Dictionary PersonsRelationships WHOPaper-based reference collection: Codex determines structure and use.Reversed in a digital environment: Metadata forms infrastructure.Build a union index, so you know where too look! Little green lights!http://metadata.berkeley.edu/demos/Search interestSearch interest

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  • Three projects on search support:Supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the National Endowment for the Humanities. - Support for the learner: What, Where, When and Who (IMLS, 2004-06) ecai.org/imls2004 - Bringing Lives to Light: Biography in Context (IMLS, 2006-09) ecai.org/imls2006 - Context and Relationships: Ireland and Irish Studies (IMLS & NEH, 2007-09) ecai.org/neh2007Part of a long-term metadata program. Teamwork by several people: Aitao Chen, Fredric Gey, Ray Larson, Dan Melia, Barry Pateman, Vivien Petras, Ryan Shaw, and others. Demos at http://metadata.berkeley.edu/demos/

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