Biography as events in time and space

Authors:
Fredric Gey;Ryan Shaw;Ray Larson;Barry Pateman
Affiliations:
University of California, Berkeley, CA;University of California, Berkeley, CA;University of California, Berkeley, CA;University of California, Berkeley, CA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL international conference on Advances in geographic information systems
Year:
2008

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Abstract

In digital humanities projects, particularly for historical research and cultural heritage, GIS has played an increasingly important role. However, most implementations have concentrated on displays which ignore the temporal dimension or express it as multiple snapshots for fixed or periodic points in time. Our project concentrates on historical biography and expresses a biography as a sequence of life events with in time and space. We utilize named entity recognition and extraction to automatically mark up biographies so that they can be displayed as dynamic maps. In so doing, contextual features and related happenings and people can be overlaid to facilitate serendipitous discovery of unanticipated and seemingly unrelated connections.