Bringing Lives to Light: Biography in Context

Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, University of California, Berkeley.

Bringing Lives to Light: Biography in Context: Related Publications.

Final Report

Bringing Lives to Light: Biography in Context A National Leadership Project for Libraries funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Grant No. LG-06-06-0037-06 Final Report for the Period October 1, 2006 through Septembe 30, 2009. December 15, 2009, rev. February 16, 2010. pdf

2009

Michael Buckland. Access to Reference Resources in a Digital Environment. University of South Florida, Feb 3, 2009. ppt.

Michael Buckland. The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative. University Libraries, Berkeley, Feb 5, 2009. (ppt).

Michael Buckland. Empowering Readers to Find Explanations: A What - Where - When - Who Approach. Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative - Computer Applications in Archaeology Joint Conference, Williamsburg, "Making History Interactive," March 22-27, 2009. ppt.

M. Buckland. Events as a structuring device in biographical mark-up and metadata. ASIST AM, Vancouver, Nov 10, 2009. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 36, no 2 (Dec/Jan 2010): 26-29. (pdf).

M. Buckland, R. Larson & R. Shaw. Finding explanations online: Easy queries AND trustworthy answers. [Poster session]. ASIST AM, Vancouver, Nov 9, 2009. (Poster pdf; text pdf).

Fredric C. Gey. Combining Statistics and Text for a View of Irish Cultural Heritage. ASSIST 2009, Tampere, Finland, May 27, 2009. (ppt).

Matthew Holmberg. Context and Relationships: Developing Electronic Research Tools for Irish Studies. Joint meeting of the California Celtic Colloquium and the Celtic Studies Association of North America, Berkeley, March 15, 2009. (ppt).

Ryan Shaw & Ray Larson. Bringing Lives to Light: Lives and Event Representation in Temporal and Geographic Context. Bulletin of IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries Volume 5 Issue 1, Spring 2009. Poster at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2008. (html).

Ryan Shaw, Raphael Troncy, and Lynda Hardman. LODE: Linking Open Descriptions of Events. (August 3, 2009). School of Information. Paper 2009-036. pdf.

Ray R. Larson. Cheshire at GeoCLEF 2008: Text and Fusion Approaches for GIR. In: C. Peters et al. (Eds.): CLEF 2008, Springer LNCS 5706, pp. 830-837, 2009.

Ray R. Larson. Geographic Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries. In: M. Agosti et al. (Eds.): ECDL 2009, Springer LNCS 5714, pp. 461-464, 2009.
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Ray R. Larson. Bringing Lives to Light: Biography in Context. Presented at the Berkeley Ischool, Kyoto University Workshop. October 2009.(ppt).

Ray R. Larson. Temporal and Geographic Context for Digital Books. Presentation at the ECDL Books Online Workshop. September 2009.(ppt).

Ryan Shaw. From facts to judgments: Theorizing history for information science. ASIST AM, Vancouver, Nov 10, 2009. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 36, no 2 (Dec/Jan 2010): 13-16. (pdf).

Michele R. Ramos. Technical Report: Biography Light Ontology: An Open Vocabulary For Encoding Biographic Texts, November 2009.(pdf)

Michael Buckland. Narratives, Facts and Events in the Foundations of Information Science. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. December/January 2010. (pdf)

Ryan Shaw. From Facts to Judgments: Theorizing History for Information Science. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. December/January 2010. (pdf)

Michael Buckland and Michele Renee Ramos. Events as a Structuring Device in Biographical Mark-up and Metadata. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. December/January 2010. (pdf)

2008

Michael Buckland. The Educational Role of the Library in a Digital Environment. Forum for Advanced Studies in Arts, Languages and Theology (SALT), Uppsala University, Oct 3, 2008. Part I: Library Reference Resources when Digital. (ppt); Part II: Design for Learning. (ppt).

Michael Buckland. Laptops and Libraries: Decentralized Access to Explanatory Resources. International Joint GIS-IDEAS and PNC/ECAI Conference, Hanoi, Dec 6, 2008. (ppt).

Michael Buckland. Reference library service in a digital environment, Library and Information Science Research 30, no 2 (2008): 81-85. Preprint (pdf).

Michael Buckland. Making Contextual Resources Accessible for Digital Resources. JISC/CNI Meeting: Transforming the User Experience, June 10-11, 2008, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Handout (pdf). Presentation (ppt)

Michael Buckland, Ray R. Larson, and Ryan Shaw. Finding and Providing Context Online, Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting 2008.

Patricia Frontiera, Ray R. Larson and John Radke. A comparison of geometric approaches to assessing spatial similarity for GIR. International Journal of Geographical Information Science v. 22, no. 3, pp.337-360, 2008.

Fredric Gey, Ryan Shaw, Ray Larson, Michael Buckland, Barry Pateman and Dan Melia. Marking Up Cultural Materials for Time and Geography. Workshop "Intelligent Access to Cultural Heritage," Aarhus, Denmark, September 18, 2008. (pdf).

Gey, F, R Shaw, R Larson and B Pateman, Biography as Events in Time and Space. Proceedings of ACM Geographic Information Systems (GIS) 2008 Conference, Irvine, California, Nov 5-7, 2008. (pdf).

Ray R. Larson. Cheshire at GeoCLEF 2007: Retesting Text Retrieval Baselines. In: Peters, C.; Jijkoun, V.; Mandl, Th.; Mueller, H.; Oard, D.W.; Penas, A.; Petras, V.; Santos, D. (Eds.) Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval: 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, Budapest, Hungary, September 19-21, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science , Vol. 5152, pp. 811-814 (in press 2008).

Ray R. Larson. Experiments in Classification Clustering and Thesaurus Expansion for Domain Specific Cross-Language Retrieval. In: Peters, C.; Jijkoun, V.; Mandl, Th.; Mueller, H.; Oard, D.W.; Penas, A.; Petras, V.; Santos, D. (Eds.) Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval: 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, Budapest, Hungary, September 19-21, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5152, pp. 188-195 (in press 2008).

Ray R. Larson. Geographic IR and Visualization in Time and Space. ACM SIGIR 2008: Thirty-first annual international ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. 20-24 July 2008, Singapore. P. 886, 2008.

Ray R. Larson. Logistic Regression and EVIs for XML Books and the Heterogeneous track. In: N. Fuhr, J. Kamps, M. Lalmas, and A. Trotman (eds). Focused access to XML documents: INEX 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4862, pp. 162-174, (in press 2008).

Ray R. Larson, Michael K. Buckland, Fredric C. Gey, Ryan Shaw, Jeanette Zerneke, Kimberly Carl, and Josh Blumstock. Bringing Lives to Light: Biography in Context, presented at UC Berkeley School of Information Friday Seminar, February 15, 2008. (ppt)

Thomas Mandl, Fredric Gey, Giorgio Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Ray Larson, Mark Sanderson, Diana Santos, Christa Womser-Hacker and Xing Xie. GeoCLEF 2007: the CLEF 2007 Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval Track Overview. In: Peters, C.; Jijkoun, V.; Mandl, Th.; Mueller, H.; Oard, D.W.; Penas, A.; Petras, V.; Santos, D. (Eds.) Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval: 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, Budapest, Hungary, September 19-21, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5152, (in press 2008).

Ryan Shaw. Event Representation in Temporal and Geographic Context. ECDL 2008, Aarhus, Denmark, September 2008.

Ryan Shaw & Michael Buckland. Open Identification and the Linking of the four Ws. Proceedings, International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, 2008, Berlin. Abstract (pdf).

Ryan Shaw and Ray R. Larson. Bringing Lives to Light: Lives and Event Representation in Temporal and Geographic Context. Proceedings of the Joint ACM/IEEE Conference on Digital Libraries, Pittsburgh, PA June 16-20, 2008.

Ryan Shaw and Ray R. Larson. Event Representation in Temporal and Geographic Context. In: B. Christensen-Dalsgaard et al. (Eds.) European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2008). LNCS 5173, pp. 415-418, 2008. (in press)

2007

Michael Buckland. The Digital Difference in Reference Collections. Journal of Library Administration 46, no 2 (2007): 87-100.
Also separately in Print vs. Digital : The Future of Coexistence, ed. by Sul Lee. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2007. (Conference, Oklahoma University Libraries, March 2 & 3, 2006.) (Paper in pdf) (Presentation in ppt

Michael Buckland. Geography, Time, and the Representation of Cultural Change -- Experience from a Large Collaboration: The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative. Knowbynet conference, organized by the Institute for Museum Research, State Museums of Berlin / Foundation Prussian Heritage, Berlin, Germany. June 22, 2007. Text, ppt.

Michael Buckland. Incorporating Historical and Geographical Dimensions into a Search Interface. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 17 April 17, 2007. (ppt)

Michael Buckland. Naming in the Library: Marks, Meaning and Machines. In: Nominalization, Nomination and Naming in Texts. Christian Todenhagen & Wolfgang Thiele, eds. Tübingen, Germany: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2007, pp. 249-260. (pdf)

Michael Buckland. The Reference Collection in the Digital Library. ECAI Congress of Cultural Atlases III, Moscow, May 30, 2007. (pdf)

Michael Buckland. Reference Library Service in a Digital Environment: A Question; an Explanation; and a Solution. Friday Afternoon Seminar, Sept 21, 2007. (ppt)

Michael Buckland, Aitao Chen, Fredric C. Gey, Ray R. Larson, Ruth Mostern & Vivien Petras. Geographic Search: Catalogs, Gazetteers, and Maps. College & Research Libraries. Vol 68, no. 5 (Sept 2007): 376-387. (pdf, Preprint pdf)

Michael Buckland, Kimberley Carl, Barry Pateman & Ryan Shaw. Self-service Reference: The 9 to 5 Problem; and How Reference Library Service in the Digital Library Environment is Back-to-Front and Upside Down in Library 1.0 and 2.0. LAUC-B Academic Library 2.0 conference, Berkeley, Nov 2, 2007.

Michael K. Buckland, Fredric C. Gey, and Ray R. Larson. Access to Heritage Resources Using What, Where, When, and Who. Presentation at Museum and the Web, San Francisco, April 11-14, 2007. (html)

Ray R. Larson. Bringing Lives to Light: Browsing and Searching Biographical Information with a Metadata Infrastructure. (Demo) In: L. Kovacs, N. Fuhr, C. Meghini (eds). Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 11th European Conference, ECDL 2007, Budapest, Hungary. September 2007. Springer LNCS 4675, 2007.

Ray R. Larson. Logistic Regression and EVIs for XML Books and the Heterogeneous track. In: N. Fuhr, J. Kamps, M. Lalmas, and A. Trotman (eds). Focused access to XML documents: INEX 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4862, pp. 162-174.

Ray R. Larson and Michael K. Buckland. Browsing with a Metadata Infrastructure for Events, Periods, and Time. American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) Annual Meeting 2007, October 19-24, 2007 Milwaukee, WI. (no pages, proceedings issued on CDROM), 2007

Frederic C. Gey. Multi-genre Search Using Common Geography. Presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of Michigan, October 20, 2007. (ppt)

Fredric C. Gey. Vocabulary, Statistics, Time and Geography. Presented at National Institute of Informatics Seminar, Kyoto, Japan, July 20, 2007. (ppt)

Fredric Gey, Ray Larson, Mark Sanderson, Kerstin Bischoff, Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker, Diana Santos and Paulo Rocha. GeoCLEF 2006: the CLEF 2006 Cross-Language Geographic Information Retrieval Track Overview", IN Peters, C., Clough, P., Gey, F., Karlgren, J., Magnini, B., Oard, D.W., de Rijke, M., Stempfhuber, Mi (Eds.) Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval -- Seventh Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006. Berlin: Springer. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4730), pp. 852-876. 2007.

Lewis Lancaster & Michael Buckland. Presented to the International Forum of Digital Humanities, Digital Libraries and Virtual Museums, March 2, 2007. (ppt)

Lewis Lancaster, Michael Buckland, Ryan Shaw. Event: Occurrence and Agency in Digital Resources. Presented at Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web. 6th International Semantic Web Conference and the 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference Workshop 9, Busan, Korea. (12 Nov 2007): 77-82. (pdf)

Ray R. Larson and Michael K. Buckland. Browsing with a Metadata Infrastructure for Events, Periods, and Time. American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) Annual Meeting 2007, October 19-24, 2007 Milwaukee, WI. (no pages, proceedings issued on CDROM), 2007

Ray R. Larson and Fredric C. Gey. GeoCLEF Text Retrieval and Manual Expansion Approaches", IN: Peters, C., Clough, P., Gey, F., Karlgren, J., Magnini, B., Oard, D.W., de Rijke, M., Stempfhuber, M (Eds.) Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval -- Seventh Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006. Berlin: Springer. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4730), pp. 970-977, 2007.

2006

Michael Buckland. Access to Digital Heritage Resources using What, Where, When and Who. Presented at the DEN Conference, Rotterdam, December 12-13, 2006.

Michael Buckland. Description and Search: Metadata as Infrastructure. Brazilian Journal of Information Science 1(1). 2006. (html) (pdf)

Michael Buckland. Geo-temporal Indexing: Events, Lives, and Geographical Features. Presented at the ECAI Conference, Fargo, ND. April 2006. (ppt).

Michael Buckland. Geography, Time and the Representation of Cultural Change -- Experience from a Large Collaboration: The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI). Presented at Knowledge by Networking, Berlin, June 22, 2007. (ppt).

Michael Buckland. The Digital Difference in Reference Collections. Journal of Library Administration (Forthcoming, also separately as proceedings for the Conference on Printed Resources and Digital Information: The Future of Coexistence. Oklahoma University Libraries, Oklahoma City. March 2 & 3, 2006. (Paper in pdf) (Presentation in ppt).

Michael Buckland, Aitao Chen, Fredric C. Gey & Ray R. Larson. Search Across Different Media: Numeric Data Sets and Text Files. Information Technology and Libraries. December 2006. (pdf)

Michael Buckland, Ray R. Larson, and others. Infrastructure for the Representation of Events and their Contexts.Poster presentation at ASIST Annual Meeting, Austin, Nov. 7, 2006. Abtract in proceedings.

Ray R. Larson. Grid-based Digital Libraries and Cheshire3. Pacific Neighborhood Consortium 2006: PNC 2006) in Conjunction with PRDLA and ECAI (Seoul, Korea, August 15-18, 2006) Program and Abstracts, pp. 36, 2006.

Ray R. Larson and Fredric Gey. Enhanced Gazetteer Development for Multilingual Geographic Information Retrieval of Natural Language Text. (Position paper). International Workshop on Digital Gazetteer Research and Practice, Santa Barbara, CA. 7-9 December, 2006.

Ray R. Larson and Robert Sanderson. Cheshire3: Retrieving from Tera-Scale Grid-Based Digital Libraries. (Demonstration Abstract). IN: S. Dumais, E. Efthimiadis, D. Hawking, K. Jarvelin (Eds). SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information i Retrieval. New York: ACM, 2006.

Vivien Petras, Ray Larson, & Michael Buckland. Time Period Directories: A Metadata Infrastructure for Placing Events in Temporal and Geographic Context. Forthcoming in: Opening Information Horizons: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Chapel Hill, NC, June 11-15, 2006. (pdf)

Robert Sanderson and Ray R. Larson. Indexing and Searching Tera-Scale Grid-Based Digital Libraries. In: INFOSCALE 2006 Proceedings, IEEE, 2006.

Paul Watry, Ray R. Larson and Robert Sanderson. Knowledge Generation from Digital Libraries and Persistent Archives. IN: J. Gonzalo, C. Thanos, M. Felisa Verdejo and R Carrasco (Eds.) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 10th European Conference ECDL 2006. Berlin: Springer. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 4172), 2006.

Jeanette L. Zerneke, Michael K. Buckland & Kim Carl. Temporally Dynamic Maps: The Electronic Cultural Atlas. Human IT 8.3 (2006): 83–94. (pdf)

2003

Vivien Petras. Biographical dictionaries: content and structure. Technical note. September 25, 2003. (pdf)

For additional related publications see also the lists associated with two earlier projects: Support for the Learner: What, Where, When, and Who (Oct 2004 - Sept 2006) and Going Places in the Catalog: Improved Geographic Access (Oct 2002 - Sept 2004) and also Context and Relationships: Ireland and Irish Studies (Oct 2007 - Sept 2009).

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