GeoStream: Spatial Information Indexing Within Textual Documents Supported by a Dynamically Parameterized Web Service

  • Albert Royer
  • Christian Sallaberry
  • Pierre Loustau
  • Mauro Gaio
  • Thierry Joliveau
  • Pierre-André Le Ny
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Abstract

Cultural heritage content is everywhere on the web: digital libraries, archives, and portals of museums or galleries. Cultural heritage document collections are characterized by contents related to a territory and its land’s history. In this context, the GeoTopia project is supported by the CNRS-TGE-Adonis and focuses on archive data sharing and interpretation. It consists in a Content Management System (CMS) that aims to manage a repository of multimedia digital documents: it exploits information like origin, theme, period, area, etc. to index and/or query documents. Our contribution is dedicated to spatial information contained in non structured textual documents. More specifically, we have developed a process flow that can extract the spatial information contained in textual documents. This process flow indexes spatial information and computes precise geolocalized representations. We propose to encapsulate it into the GeoStream specific web service and to make its behavior dynamically customizable for easier integration into such platforms used for the management of cultural heritage electronic documents.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Albert Royer
    • 1
  • Christian Sallaberry
    • 1
  • Pierre Loustau
    • 1
  • Mauro Gaio
    • 1
  • Thierry Joliveau
    • 2
  • Pierre-André Le Ny
    • 3
  1. 1.Université de Pau et des Pays de l’AdourPau CedexFrance
  2. 2.CRENAM-ISIG CNRS/UMR 5600Université Jean Monnet, Saint-EtienneSaint-Etienne Cedex 02France
  3. 3.Makina CorpusParisFrance

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