looking up the history of climatic change in latam · 5.12.2017 · looking up the history of...

José Luis Zechinelli MartiniGenoveva Vargas-Solar, Javier A Espinosa Oviedo, Santiago Ruiz

Fundación Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, MexicoFrench Council of Scientific Research, LAFMIA, France

Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, SpainUniversidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, Mexico

Looking up the history of climatic change in LATAMbetween XVIII – XIX centuries

Funded by IPGH, http://www.ipgh.org Pontificia U. Javeriana U. de la RepúblicaFundación U. de las Américas U. del AzuayU. de Cuenca

MetaData

-toponymes: {String}-geoLoc: {<Lat, Long>}- date: Data- duration: Interval- EventType: String

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PROBLEM STATEMENT

Newspaper Archaeology(data collection)

Challenge: choose Vocabulary

Geo-temporal tagging Visualization & Analysis

Retrieve articles talking about climatologic events

What? Where? When? Duration? Extent?

Climatologic Events History

LATAM “colloquial” Climatology Terminology

- Locate climatologic events in the XVII c.- Enumerate & locate the most famous events in the region

- Create a heat map of events in LATAM in the last years of the XIX c.

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NEWS PAPERS ARCHAEOLOGY (1/2)Retrieve articles talking about climatologic events

Qn: key word conjunctive query

Colloquial climatologic vocabulary

Omex:Ontology

Q

Text processing:filter, terms

New terms

Define query

API / Portal

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NEWS PAPERS ARCHAEOLOGYRetrieve articles talking about climatologic events

Qn: key word conjunctive queryQ

Text processing:filter, terms

New termsDefine query

API / Portal

<t, geo-tag, year>

Classify new terms

Qn

Colloquial climatologic Vocabulary/Glossary

S XXI

Omex:Ontology Wordnet Folksonomies

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FEEDING FOLKSONOMIESText processing Terms index

Filteredarticles

MetaData



Colloquial climatologic Vocabulary/Glossary

S XXI

Omex:Ontology Wordnet Folksonomies

<t, geo-tag, year>

getTerm()

geoTempTagTerm()

TermBuilder

classify()

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NEWS PAPERS ARCHAEOLOGY (2/2)Retrieve articles talking about climatologic events

Omex:Ontology OUR:Ontology Ocol:Ontology

Distributed query results: OCR archive

Colloquial climatologic vocabularies

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FOLKSONOMIES CARTOGRAPHY

Omex:Ontology OUR:Ontology Ocol:Ontology

Colloquial climatologic folksonomies

How have terms used to describe climatological events changed between S XIX – SXX?Which are common terms used to describe climatological events across Latin American countries?Which is the distance between terms used in S XIX – SXX?Which are the most popular terms used in S XIX for describing climatological events ?

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GEO-TEMPORAL TAGGING

Omex:Ontology

Text processing

Frequenciesmatrix

Filteredarticles

Terms

Location service

toponyme

filter()

extractMetaData()

MetaData


New terms

Data scientist


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Curating documents

CLIMATE CHANGE THROUGH HISTORY

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2…

59*

Extract Content

Save Documents

*Process only ‘article’ type documents Frequency MatrixText Analysis

Geo Political Entities

Geo Filter

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USER INPUT DATA

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REGION SELECTION

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DOCUMENT INDEXING

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FREQUENCY MATRIX

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FREQUENCY MATRIX HEAT MAP

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CONTENT EXPLORATION

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SEARCHING & FILTERING GEOGRAPHICAL ENTITIES

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DISPLAYING GEOGRAPHICAL ENTITIES

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STORING CLIMATIC EVENTS

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VISUALIZATION

MetaData



- Locate climatologic events in the XVII c.- Enumerate & locate the most famous events in the region

- Create a heat map of events in LATAM in the last years of the XIX c.

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ANALYSIS

MetaData



- How did rainy time evolved in time in the region?- Could it have been possible to predict the evolution of

climate behaviour from the data in c. XVIII and XIX

- In which way was climate different between XVII and XIX- How did vocabulary evolved from colloquial to scientific

and standardized in the XX c?

José Luis Zechinelli MartiniGenoveva Vargas-Solar, Javier A Espinosa Oviedo, Santiago Ruiz

Fundación Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, MexicoFrench Council of Scientific Research, LAFMIA, France

Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, SpainUniversidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, Mexico

Funded by IPGH, http://www.ipgh.org Pontificia U. Javeriana U. de la RepúblicaFundación U. de las Américas U. del AzuayU. de Cuenca

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Design and implementation

Application

Google Maps API

“Downpours in Guadalajarabetween 1825 and 1850”

Source Manager

Information source

Info Available?

No

Yes

Search for data in Database

Request Information(HTTP)

(PDF, JSON, XML, HTML)

Tag Content

Information Finder

Location

Coordinates

Coordinates

MapSa

ve

Data

Information Manager

Application

Request Builder

Request Handler

Web Applicatio

n

Content Generato

r

Content Extractor

Database

Google Maps API

The GuardianREST

Service

System Application

Web Server

User Climate Info Request

User

Process Request

HTTP Request

JSON

GET Request

HTTP Response

Info Available?

No

Yes

Exempli Gratia