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Event Gazetteers and Timelines for Accessing Culture and History

Explore a vast collection of historical newspaper articles, event gazetteers, and timelines for accessing culture and history. Discover a wide range of research topics, utilize OCR technology, and access metadata for storage and networking. Extend your exploration to multimedia sources such as radio and TV.

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Event Gazetteers and Timelines for Accessing Culture and History

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  1. Event Gazetteers and Timelines forAccessing Culture and History Bob Allen College of Information Studies U. Maryland

  2. Historical Newspaper Collections • Large quantity of highly relevant information • 3000 titles just in Maryland • Many research topics • Storage/Networking • OCR research • Metadata • Interface and interaction • Extend to multimedia (radio/TV)

  3. Event Gazetteers and Event Servers • Model is spatial gazetteers • Alexandria GIS project • Event structures • Dates • Location – GIS • Agent • Issues • Vague event specification • Metadata standards

  4. Relationships among Events • Timelines • Collecting and showing events • A model for nesting events within events • Annotations to describe the relationships • Sharing, collaboration, and versioning • Many viewpoints on events • Creation communities

  5. Causality State model of qualitative causation State1 State2 Causal State Cognitive organizers for science texts Casual grids

  6. Narrative • Plot units • (Flow of physical states + mental states)

  7. Community HistoriesEducational Implications • Scalable • Self-organizing and local • Viewing local events in national context

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