Museum, Library and Archives Partnership: Leveraging Digitized Data from Historical Sources

Digitized content in the UK research library and archives sector

Assessment of Digitized Library and Archives Materials: A Literature Review

Newspaper archives + text mining = rich sources of historical geo-spatial data

Newspaper archives are rich sources of cultural, social, and historical information. These archives, even when digitized, are typically unstructured and organized by date rather than by subject or location, and require substantial manual effort to analyze. The effort of journalists to be accurate and precise means that there is often rich geo-spatial data embedded in the text, alongside text de...

Leveraging the Semantic Web Technologies for Knowledge Discovery from Earth Observation Data Archives

In recent years, remote sensing data collection and archiving have significantly increased. Landsat data alone comprises 434 terabytes of archive (31 years of Landsat 1-5; 165 terabytes, 4 years of Landsat 7; 269 terabytes). Multiple Petabytes of data from EOS and Pre-EOS are archived by NASA DAACs. Since 1998, the science data volume managed by the EOSDIS has increased eight-fold, and continue...

Leveraging Linked Data to Discover Semantic Relations Within Data Sources

Mapping data to a shared domain ontology is a key step in publishing semantic content on the Web. Most of the work on automatically mapping structured and semi-structured sources to ontologies focuses on semantic labeling, i.e., annotating data fields with ontology classes and/or properties. However, a precise mapping that fully recovers the intended meaning of the data needs to describe the se...