Finding a catalog generating analytical catalog records from well-structured digital texts

One of the criticisms library users often make of catalogs is that they rarely include information below the bibliographic level. It is generally impossible to search a catalog for the titles and subjects of particular chapters or volumes. There has been no way to add this information to catalog rec...

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Published in:Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries : Denver, CO, USA, June 7-11, 2005 : digital libraries, cyberinfrastructure for research and education pp. 271 - 280
Main Authors: Mimno, David, Jones, Alison, Crane, Gregory
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 07.06.2005
IEEE
Series:ACM Conferences
Subjects:
analytical cataloging
Applied computing > Computers in other domains > Digital libraries and archives
Costs
Cranes
Data mining
Information analysis
information extraction
Information systems > Information systems applications > Digital libraries and archives
Investments
library automation
Permission
Software libraries
Storage automation
XML
information extraction
library automation
analytical cataloging
ISBN:1581138768, 9781581138764
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Summary:One of the criticisms library users often make of catalogs is that they rarely include information below the bibliographic level. It is generally impossible to search a catalog for the titles and subjects of particular chapters or volumes. There has been no way to add this information to catalog records without exponentially increasing the workload of catalogers. At the same time, well-structured full-text XML transcriptions of printed works are becoming increasingly available. This paper describes how existing investments in full text digitization and structural markup combined with current named-entity extraction technology can efficiently generate the detailed level of catalog data that users want, at no significant additional cost. This system is demonstrated on an existing digital collection within the Perseus Digital Library.
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ISBN:1581138768
9781581138764
DOI:10.1145/1065385.1065448