Integrating Tools for Synthesis into Digital Libraries Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:5090009, abstract = {Second-generation digital libraries aim to go beyond providing access to resources, toward integrating tools and services for exploring the content of resources. Much of the work in this area focuses on tools for analyzing data sets such as numeric observations or text corpora. Our work, in contrast, focuses on tools for synthesizing an understanding of mentioned but unexplained names or terms. We argue that these self-service reference tools, by making connections across separate collections, complement analytic tools that uncover patterns within a collection. Finally, we demonstrate working prototypes that illustrate the basic principles of self-service reference.}, author = {Shaw, Ryan and Buckland, Michael and Larson, Ray}, citeulike-article-id = {5090009}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://nema.lis.uiuc.edu/sgdlwiki/files/larson_abstract.pdf}, journal = {Proceedings of JCDL 2009 Workshop: Integrating Digital Library Content with Computational Tools and Services}, keywords = {digital-humanities, digital-libraries--historical, knowledge-sources--historical, named\_entities--historical}, month = {June}, posted-at = {2009-07-07 21:13:28}, priority = {4}, title = {Integrating Tools for Synthesis into Digital Libraries}, url = {http://nema.lis.uiuc.edu/sgdlwiki/files/larson_abstract.pdf}, year = {2009} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:5090009 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5090009 N2 - Second-generation digital libraries aim to go beyond providing access to resources, toward integrating tools and services for exploring the content of resources. Much of the work in this area focuses on tools for analyzing data sets such as numeric observations or text corpora. Our work, in contrast, focuses on tools for synthesizing an understanding of mentioned but unexplained names or terms. We argue that these self-service reference tools, by making connections across separate collections, complement analytic tools that uncover patterns within a collection. Finally, we demonstrate working prototypes that illustrate the basic principles of self-service reference. JF - Proceedings of JCDL 2009 Workshop: Integrating Digital Library Content with Computational Tools and Services TI - Integrating Tools for Synthesis into Digital Libraries KW - digital-humanities KW - digital-libraries--historical KW - knowledge-sources--historical KW - named_entities--historical AU - Shaw, Ryan AU - Buckland, Michael AU - Larson, Ray PY - 2009/06// UR - http://nema.lis.uiuc.edu/sgdlwiki/files/larson_abstract.pdf ER -