Cultural History Baseball Cards: Flash-building a New Tool for Baseball Researchers
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JSTOR Labs is developing a new tool to help baseball researchers by building a knowledge graph connecting people, places, organizations, and events mentioned in a collection of baseball-related articles and data sources. They conducted a flash build at the Library of Congress to develop an initial prototype by extracting entities from articles, linking them to Wikidata records about baseball, and incorporating additional data sources. The tool will be released as a proof of concept on labs.jstor.org and has potential to be expanded by adding more data, correcting errors through crowdsourcing, and expanding beyond baseball in the future.
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Cultural History Baseball Cards: Flash-building a New Tool for Baseball Researchers
- 1. Flash-building a New Tool for Baseball Researchers Alex Humphreys @abhumphreys July 13, 2018 Cultural History Baseball Cards
- 2. ITHAKA is a not-for-profit organization that helps the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. JSTOR is a not-for-profit digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. Ithaka S+R is a not-for-profit research and consulting service that helps academic, cultural, and publishing communities thrive in the digital environment. Portico is a not-for-profit preservation service for digital publications, including electronic journals, books, and historical collections. Artstor provides 2+ million high-quality images and digital asset management software to enhance scholarship and teaching.
- 3. JSTOR Labs works with partner publishers, libraries and labs to create tools for researchers, teachers and students that are immediately useful – and a little bit magical.
- 4. labs.jstor.org/shakespeare UNDERSTANDING SHAKESPEARE Pick a play. Click a line. Instantly see articles on JSTOR that quote that line.
- 15. CREATING A TOOL FOR BASEBALL RESEARCHERS
- 16. 1. Create the sandbox 2. Research & data prep 3. Design jam 4. Select an approach 5. Refine approach 6. Release OUR APPROACH: July 9-13 Flash build at Library of Congress
- 17. 1. Create the sandbox 2. Research & data prep 3. Design jam 4. Select an approach 5. Refine approach 6. Release +
- 18. 1. Create the sandbox 2. Research & data prep 3. Design jam 4. Select an approach 5. Refine approach 6. Release • Selected articles in JSTOR about baseball (~25k) using topic model • Ran entity extraction (people, places, organizations) • Limited entities to Wikidata records associated with baseball • Created knowledge graph • Incorporated data from Wikidata, LOC and NMAAHC into knowledge graph
- 19. 1. Create the sandbox 2. Research & data prep 3. Design jam 4. Select an approach 5. Refine approach 6. Release
- 20. 1. Create the sandbox 2. Research & data prep 3. Design jam 4. Select an approach 5. Refine approach 6. Release
- 21. 1. Create the sandbox 2. Research & data prep 3. Design jam 4. Select an approach 5. Refine approach 6. Release
- 22. 1. Create the sandbox 2. Research & data prep 3. Design jam 4. Select an approach 5. Refine approach 6. Release
- 23. 1. Create the sandbox 2. Research & data prep 3. Design jam 4. Select an approach 5. Refine approach 6. Release
- 24. 1. Create the sandbox 2. Research & data prep 3. Design jam 4. Select an approach 5. Refine approach 6. Release
- 25. 1. Create the sandbox 2. Research & data prep 3. Design jam 4. Select an approach 5. Refine approach 6. Release
- 26. 1. Create the sandbox 2. Research & data prep 3. Design jam 4. Select an approach 5. Refine approach 6. Release
- 27. 1. Create the sandbox 2. Research & data prep 3. Design jam 4. Select an approach 5. Refine approach 6. Release
- 36. 1. Create the sandbox 2. Research & data prep 3. Design jam 4. Select an approach 5. Refine approach 6. Release In the next few weeks: • Bug fixing, etc. • Release as a proof of concept, available on labs.jstor.org Further down the road, there’s opportunity to: • Add new data & content to the knowledge graph • Incorporate crowd-sourcing to correct errors in knowledge graph • Expand beyond baseball
- 37. Thank you Alex Humphreys Director, JSTOR Labs ITHAKA labs.jstor.org @abhumphreys alex.humphreys@ithaka.org