Case study: De Clercq
The standard anthropological work by De Clercq and Schmeltz (1893) contains a large number of classified object descriptions of the Papua peoples in former Dutch New Guinea.
Re-using reference structures
The RNA project links the chapter on weaponry in the work of De Clercq and Schmeltz to Landolt's military dictionary, which also covers weapons and military science.
The work of De Clercq and the Landolt dictionary contain a large number of keywords and descriptions of these keywords (together: lemmas). The RNA project links keywords and matching words in the description of other keywords. In this way, a network of lemmas is created, a reference structure that was already implicitly present in the descriptions. This lemma network is largely created through automation. The result is an encyclopaedic network of lemmas where users can jump from keyword to keyword and from keywords to linked content.
Tuesday, April 24, 2007