This website attempts to document all the places in America that Emma Goldman gave talks, and all the topics she spoke on, between 1910 and 1916. Goldman's activities are represented as a network of events, each of which can be associated with documents related to those events. Part of the Bringing Lives to Light: Biography in Context project.
A demonstration of how scanned texts can be enhanced with links to contextually relevant resources. Using the output of an optical character recognition (OCR) process, line and word locations can be determined, allowing interactive selection and highlighting of references to people and places. These references can be detected automatically or manually added as annotations. Part of the Contexts and Relationships: Ireland and Irish Studies project.
The Context Finder (see above) is designed to enable anyone to go find explanatory descriptions of anything at any time and to find an explanation as up-to-date as the selected resource is at the time it is queried. This emphasis on live, real-time searching has a significant advantage over the inherent tendency to obsolescence in designs that depend on caching and storing resources. There is, however, benefit in noting any resources that proved satisfactory for some particular query so that it is available for the next reading and/or the next reader. The ability to accumulate notes on what resources proved useful we call the Context Builder.
The Context Builder enables a text to be enriched with numerous links to one or more explanatory, contextualizing resources. Each link is from a specific word or phrase in the text and points to a specific point in a specific resource. What if these links are also provided in the reverse direction? All the needed ingredients are present, always assuming that permission to enrich the resource(s) is granted or not needed. One can readily imagine procedures for extracting from the text the links inserted by the Context Builder that point to one particular resource, sorting them into the right order, then embedding them into the resource so that they point back to the words mentioning the name or topic in the original text. This second derivative of the Context Finder we called the Context Provider.
A demonstration of how biographical information can be extracted and displayed in a geotemporal browser. The KML file, when loaded into Google Earth, shows the birthplace and (and applicable) death place for all of the members of the U.S. Congress since the first Congress in 1789. Panning and zooming the Google earth interface, and adjusting the time bar submits searches finding related Congresspersons. Part of the Bringing Lives to Light: Biography in Context project.
A demonstration of how historical statistical information can be extracted and displayed in a geotemporal browser. The KML files, when loaded into Google Earth, show the Irish Barony or Poor Law Union outlines and population for the 1841, 1851, 1861 and 1871 census. Tilting the view will allow you to see the population data as a histogram bar at the center of the Barony or PLU. Part of the Contexts and Relationships: Ireland and Irish Studies project.