Incremental, semi-automatic, mapping-based integration of heterogeneous collections into archaeological digital libraries: Megiddo case study

  • Authors:
  • Ananth Raghavan;Naga Srinivas Vemuri;Rao Shen;Marcos A. Goncalves;Weiguo Fan;Edward A. Fox

  • Affiliations:
  • Digital Library Research Laboratory, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA;Digital Library Research Laboratory, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA;Digital Library Research Laboratory, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA;Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo-Horizonte, MB, Brazil;Digital Library Research Laboratory, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA;Digital Library Research Laboratory, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

  • Venue:
  • ECDL'05 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Automation is an important issue when integrating heterogeneous collections into archaeological digital libraries. We propose an incremental approach through intermediary- and mapping-based techniques. A visual schema mapping tool within the 5S [1] framework allows semi-automatic mapping and incremental global schema enrichment. 5S also helped speed up development of a new multi-dimension browsing service. Our approach helps integrate the Megiddo [2] excavation data into a growing union archaeological DL, ETANA-DL [3].