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ERCIMDL
2001
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Disambiguating Geographic Names in a Historical Digital Library
Geographic interfaces provide natural, scalable visualizations for many digital library collections, but the wide range of data in digital libraries presents some particular proble...
David A. Smith, Gregory Crane
ESWS
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Ontology-based Disambiguation of Spatiotemporal Locations
Abstract. Geographic place names are semantically often highly ambiguous. For example, there are 491 places in Finland sharing the same name "Isosaari" (great island) tha...
Tomi Kauppinen, Riikka Henriksson, Reetta Sinkkil&...
ERCIMDL
2009
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Geographic Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries
In this demonstration we will examine the effectiveness of Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) methods in digital library interfaces. We will show how various types of informat...
Ray R. Larson
GIR
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Geographically-aware information retrieval for collections of digitized historical maps
DIGMAP is a project focused on historical digitized maps that will develop a set of Internet services based on reusable open-source software solutions. The main service will provi...
Bruno Martins, José Luis Borbinha, Gilberto...