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Friday, September 01, 2006
Advances in Discovery: The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative Experience by Michael K. Buckland and Lewis R. Lancaster, First Monday
The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative was founded in 1997 by a group of scholars with a mission to advance education and research in the humanities and social sciences through increased attention to time and place. Knowing about context forms the basis for discovery and understanding. Our recent emphasis has been on developing a metadata infrastructure for the four facets What, Where, When and Who, each of which has special characteristics and display requirements, to advance discovery. WHAT requires thesauri of topics and tools to explore cross references within and between thesauri. WHERE needs place name gazetteers and map displays. Similarly, for WHEN we developed a directory that connects named time periods with calendar dates and a timeline or chronology. WHO requires best practices and standards for encoding the events in people’s lives, for contextualizing those events, and for displaying interpersonal relationships.
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I have a project regarding a multimedia linguistic atlas that links the user with an interesting database...It allows all sorts of functions and actions...I wonder if you know where can I show my project so that I could get an sincere opinion
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