Using Wikipedia to Extend Digital Collections

MIRACLE at the Spanish WiQA Pilot: Using Named Entities and Cosine Similarity to extend Wikipedia articles

The WiQA pilot task explores how to select new and useful information that could be included in Wikipedia articles. Our system explores how the combination of NE and cosine similarity allow to detect new and repeated information. We have submitted two runs for the Spanish subtask wich differ in the way they select candidate sentences using the link structure in the WikipediaXML corpus. Our appr...

Developing Mobile Access to Digital Collections

One of the recent dominant topics in library technology has been the development of library mobile websites and services tailored to mobile users. While much has been written and discussed on the subject, very little of the conversation has focused on mobile access to digital collections. Libraries and museums spend significant resources in an effort to identify, digitize, ingest, describe, sto...

Assigning Rights Statements to Legacy Digital Collections

Implementing digital folklore collections

In this paper, we present a metadata model to describe the digitized digital folklore collection of the Department of Greek Studies in the University of Athens. Folklore collection consists of different kinds of digitized material. The volume and the variety of material results to collection representation as a hierarchical structure, according to the type of objects, the corresponding chronolo...

Visualizing Digital Collections

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