semantic tagging for old maps...and other things on the web
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Talk at Web as Literature Conference 2013 @ British LibraryTRANSCRIPT
Semantic Tagging for old maps...... and other things on the Web
Bernhard Haslhofer (University of Vienna)
Web as Literature Conference, London, June 10th 2013
Web as Literature Conference, London, 2013
Overview
• Annotations on Historical Maps
• Maphub
• Semantic Tagging in Maphub
• Semantic Tagging for other things
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Annotations on Historical Maps
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Annotations on Historical Maps
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Annotations on Historical Maps
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Annotations on Historical Maps
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Possible Benefits
• Engage people; let them tell their stories
• Collect knowledge; enhance metadata records
• Connect digitized maps with other Web resources
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Maphub
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http://maphub.github.com
Harvard, January 2013
Maphub Features
• Geo References + Map Overlays
• Comments + Semantic Tagging
• Multilingual Search
• (Open Annotation) API
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Harvard, January 2013
Geo References + Map Overlays
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Web as Literature Conference, London, 2013
Web as Literature Conference, London, 2013
Harvard, January 2013
Comments + Semantic Tagging
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Multilingual Search
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Open Annotation API
http://sws.geonames.org/
2643743/
http://maphubdev.mminf.univie.ac.at/
control_points/1
oax:Tagging
rdf:type
oax:hasSemanticTagoa:hasTarget
uuid:1235oa:annotator
http://maphubdev.mminf.univie.ac.at
oa:generator
"behas"
foaf:name
foaf:mbox
oa:Annotation
rdf:type"2012-07-18T02:
01:07Z"
oa:generated
"2012-07-18T02:01:07Z"
oa:annotated
maphub:GeoReference
rdf:type
uuid:4567
http://samos.mminf.univie.ac.
at/maps/raw/g3200.ct000725C.jp2
oa:SpecificResource
rdf:type
oa:hasSourceuuid:8910
oa:hasSelector
oa:FragmentSelector
rdf:type
xywh=6550,6228,1,1
rdf:value
dcterms:StillImage
rdf:type
image/jp2
dc:format
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Open Annotation API
http://maphubdev.mminf.univie.ac.at/
annotations/1
oa:Annotation
rdf:type
oa:hasTarget
uuid:1235oa:annotator
http://maphubdev.mminf.univie.ac.at
oa:generator
"behas"
foaf:name
foaf:mbox"2012-07-18T02:
01:07Z"
oa:generated
"2012-07-18T02:01:07Z"
oa:annotated
uuid:4567
http://samos.mminf.univie.ac.
at/maps/raw/g3200.ct000725C.jp2
oa:SpecificResource
rdf:type
oa:hasSource uuid:2752
oa:hasSelector
ct:ContentAsTextrdf:type
image/svg
dcterms:format
dcterms:StillImage
rdf:type
image/jp2
dc:format
oa:hasBody
uuid:2751
cnt:ContentAsText
rdf:type
"text/plain"
dc:format
In antiquity, the Strait of Gibraltar (which connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Mediterranean Sea) was also known by the name \"The Pillars of Hercules\". This is the reason for this inscription!
cnt:chars
dbpedia: Strait_of_Gibraltar
oax:hasSemanticTag
dbpedia: Pillars_of_Hercules
oax:hasSemanticTag
<svg…..>ct:chars
uuid:2753
oa:hasSelector
ct:ContentAsText
rdf:type
application/wkt
dcterms:format
POLYGON((5315 5639,5444….)
ct:chars
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Semantic Tagging in Maphub
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Label- vs. Semantic Tagging
utr
Label-based tagging K
u
rx
t
ryabout
Semantic tagging
tag: String tag: URI Reference
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Semantic Tagging in Maphub
There is a DBpedia/Wikipedia URI behind each visual tag
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mediterranean_sea
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Results
• Semantic tagging (as implemented in Maphub) provides unambiguous relationships to well-defined and linked Web resources and does NOT affect
• tag production
• types and categories of tags
• user task load
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Semantic Tagging for other things
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Our plan
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• Implement Semantic Tagging Plugin for Annotorious
• Support additional knowledge contexts (e.g., vocabs expressed in SKOS)
• Release Q3/2013
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Thanks !@bhaslhofer
http://slideshare.net/bhaslhofer
http://bernhardhaslhofer.info
http://maphub.github.io
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