Enriched Access to a Large War Historical Text using the Back of the Book Index

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This document discusses enriching access to a large historical text using the back of the book index. It presents a system that links concepts in the index to external knowledge bases to provide additional context. Users are then able to ask questions by searching or querying the enriched index. The system was developed by researchers at VU University Amsterdam to enhance access to a Dutch war history text.

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Enriched Access to a Large
War Historical Text using
the Back of the Book Index

Victor de Boer, Johan van Doornik, Lars
Buitinck, Kees Ribbens, and Tim Veken
VU University Amsterdam
v.de.boer@vu.nl

GeoNames
Blitzkrieg
bb_ww2:oai_wo2_niod_nl_rec_102045

National war thesaurus

botb:Amsterdam
niod:botb-Blitzkrieg
niod:botb-Blitzkrieg
botb:Blitzkrieg

http://resolver.verrijktkoninkrijk.nl/nl.vk.d.reg.4.1386 Back-of-the-Book Index

http://eculture.cs.vu.nl:1914/sparql
PREFIX niod: <http://purl.org/collections/nl/niod/>
prefix dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>
PREFIX skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#>
SELECT DISTINCT ?pageref ?province SPARQL for R
WHERE {
?subj <http://www.geonames.org/ontology#parentADM1> ?province
?bc skos:closeMatch ?subj.
?bc skos:inScheme niod:BotBScheme.
?bc niod:pageRef ?pageref.
}

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Enriched Access to a Large War Historical Text using the Back of the Book Index

1. Enriched Access to a Large War Historical Text using the Back of the Book Index Victor de Boer, Johan van Doornik, Lars Buitinck, Kees Ribbens, and Tim Veken VU University Amsterdam v.de.boer@vu.nl

2. GeoNames Blitzkrieg bb_ww2:oai_wo2_niod_nl_rec_102045 National war thesaurus botb:Amsterdam niod:botb-Blitzkrieg niod:botb-Blitzkrieg botb:Blitzkrieg http://resolver.verrijktkoninkrijk.nl/nl.vk.d.reg.4.1386 Back-of-the-Book Index

3. http://eculture.cs.vu.nl:1914/sparql PREFIX niod: <http://purl.org/collections/nl/niod/> prefix dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> PREFIX skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> SELECT DISTINCT ?pageref ?province SPARQL for R WHERE { ?subj <http://www.geonames.org/ontology#parentADM1> ?province ?bc skos:closeMatch ?subj. ?bc skos:inScheme niod:BotBScheme. ?bc niod:pageRef ?pageref. } “How did Loe de Jong deal with pillarization and group identity across the various volumes?” Verrijkt Koninkrijk(Enriched Kingdom) - Victor de Boer - VU University Amsterdam - v.de.boer@vu.nl

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