JCDL2002 NKOS workshop intro

Introduction----Digital GazetteersIntegration into Distributed Library Services: 

Introduction ---- Digital Gazetteers Integration into Distributed Library Services JCDL 2002 Workshop Sponsored by Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS)

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ADEPT, Smith, October 1999 Place-based information challenge Harvested Webpages GIS datasets Oral histories Georeferencing by placename and by spatial footprint Aerial photos Books Maps Data Papers

Reference sources in DLs: 

Reference sources in DLs

Reference sources in DLs: 

Reference sources in DLs Thesauri Authority files Concept spaces Gazetteers Dictionaries Glossaries Subject heading sets Classification systems Knowledge Organization Systems/Services * Defined structures, supported services Common view of all types of KOS as objects in DLs *KOS

Digital gazetteer essentials: 

Digital gazetteer essentials None of these elements are unique identifiers of a particular place

What's a gazetteer?: 

What's a gazetteer? Originally (in the simplest case) setof (name, location) the 'index' in an atlas a 'geographical dictionary' feature labels for GIS data layers ADL basics setof (name, type, location) ADL extended Time-stamped names, extents, and relationships Descriptive information about names and places Merging of information about a place from multiple sources Preferred definition Spatial dictionary of named and typed places

Roles of gazetteers in digital libraries: 

Roles of gazetteers in digital libraries Collections useful information in their own right References canonical (official or preferred) names and locations 'Finding aids' where's this? location = gaz(name, type) what's here? (name, type) = gaz(location)

Digital libraries and gazetteers: 

Digital libraries and gazetteers Content + Standards + Services Communities andgt;andgt; domain-specific gazetteers (local and specific knowledge) Exchange andgt;andgt; shared standards Protocols andgt;andgt; search andamp; retrieval for distributed gazetteers Federations 'middleware' (broker) aggregates access to multiple gazetteers

Workshop presentations: 

Workshop presentations Digital gazetteers as DL components Linda Hill (UCSB): Content standards for digital gazetteers James Frew (UCSB): Textual-Geospatial Integration (TGI) Project Ruth Mostern (Berkeley): Digital gazetteer standards for history and culture Protocols for accessing distributed gazetteers and thesauri Greg Janée (UCSB): Gazetteer and thesaurus service protocols Jens Fitzke (University of Bonn): Standard-based gazetteer services

Workshop presentations: 

Workshop presentations Gazetteer integration projects Ya-ning Chen, Shu-jiun Chen, Han-wei Yen, Hsiung-ming Liaw (Academia Sinica, Taiwan): Digital gazetteer service in context of Chinese culture Andy Corbett, James Reid, David Medyckyj-Scott, Cressida Chappell (Universities of Edinburgh and Essex): Geo-Crosswalk – A gazetteer service and server for the UK Gudrun Richardson, Humphrey Southall (Great Britain Historical GIS Project): From a historical GIS to an on-line administrative gazetteer of Great Britain

Workshop presentations: 

Workshop presentations Gazetteer integration projects David Smith (Tufts): Mining gazetteer data from digital library collections Patrick McGlamery (University of Connecticut): Inferring areal geographies for non-bounded places in Connecticut Rhian Evans, Peter Morton (Atlas of Canada): The Atlas of Canada: a gazetteer service and application Summing up led by Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information

NKOS: 

NKOS Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services Informal association for the discussion of the functional and data model for enabling knowledge organization systems (KOS), such as classification systems, thesauri, gazetteers, and ontologies, as networked interactive information services to support the description and retrieval of diverse information resources through the Internet. Listserv hosted by NSF DLI2 Program. See http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/

CGGR: 

CGGR UCSB’s Center for Global Georeferencing Research Listserv for the discussion of gazetteer related issues Archives hosted by NSF DLI2 website See http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/gazetteer

Additional presentation at Prelude: 

Additional presentation at Prelude Jordan Hastings Doctoral student, Geography UCSB Duplicate Resolution in Gazetteers Or Is this information about the same place as this other information?