Text and Context: Special Collections and scholarship

Exploring Collections of Tagged Text for Literary Scholarship

Modern literary scholars must combine access to vast collections of text with the traditional close analysis of their field. In this paper, we discuss the design and development of tools to support this work. Based on analysis of the needs of literary scholars, we constructed a suite of visualization tools for the analysis of large collections of tagged text (i.e. text where one or more words h...

Special Problems Of Special Collections

T LIBRARY of Duke Frederigo of Montefeltre, Count of Urbino, (14441482 A.D.) was described by his librarian and biographer Vespasiano1 as containing one perfect copy of every known work at that time, sacred or profane, in the original tongue or in translation. The duties of the librarian were clearly stated in a code issued under Guidobaldo I, son of Frederigo:2 He must be not only learned but ...

Teaching with Artifacts and Special Collections.

Digitized Special Collections and Multiple User Groups

Many organizations have evolved since their early attempts to mount digital exhibits on the web and are experimenting with ways to increase the scale of their digitized collections by utilizing archival finding aid description rather than resource-intensive collections and exhibits. This paper examines usability research to predict how such systems might effectively be used and highlights a dig...

Search Between Chinese and Japanese Text Collections

For NTCIR Workshop 6 UC Berkeley participated in Phase 1 of the bilingual task of the CLIR track. Our focus was upon Japanese topic search against the Chinese News Document Collection and upon Chinese topic searches retrieving from Japanese News document collection. We performed search experiments to segment and use Chinese search topics directly as if they were Japanese topics and vice versa. ...