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Event Gazetteers and Timelines for Accessing Culture and History Bob Allen College of Information Studies U. Maryland
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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)
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Event Gazetteers and Event Servers Model is spatial gazetteers –Alexandria GIS project Event structures –Dates –Location – GIS –Agent Issues –Vague event specification –Metadata standards
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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
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Causality State model of qualitative causation State1 State2 Causal State Cognitive organizers for science texts Casual grids
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Narrative Plot units –(Flow of physical states + mental states)
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Community Histories Educational Implications –Scalable –Self-organizing and local –Viewing local events in national context
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