Freebie: an open source digital library with support for textual and spatial searches

  • Authors:
  • Welmisson Jammesson da Silva;Cláudio de Souza Baptista;Ulrich Schiel;Elvis Rodrigues da Silva;Luciana Cavalcante de Menezes;Ricardo Madeira Fernandes

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Rua Aprígio Veloso, Campina Grande - PB;Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Rua Aprígio Veloso, Campina Grande - PB;Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Rua Aprígio Veloso, Campina Grande - PB;Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Rua Aprígio Veloso, Campina Grande - PB;Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Rua Aprígio Veloso, Campina Grande - PB;Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Rua Aprígio Veloso, Campina Grande - PB

  • Venue:
  • WebMedia '06 Proceedings of the 12th Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the web
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Nowadays there is an increasing volume of heterogeneous documents in a company, in different media such as texts, spreadsheets, images, maps, etc. Most of these documents contain relevant information about the company; hence they need to be stored, indexed and retrieved efficiently. Digital libraries aim to address this issue by providing an infrastructure which enables to manipulate these documents. Furthermore, the use of geographical location of such documents has become more attractive recently, especially due to the dissemination of GPS units in many devices. Thus, these documents may have spatial footprints which allow for the enhancement of the quality of search in such digital libraries. This paper presents Freebie, an open source digital library, which provides both textual and spatial indexing on underlying documents. The spatial metadata may be used regarding the subject and author location; and the place of the publication.