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              Taking Time Seriously:
     Diachronic Collections in Digital Libraries
                            Keynote abstract

                                  Jaap Kamps

                            University of Amsterdam
                                 kamps@uva.nl



1   Abstract
Digital library collections may appear static, but usually contain content from
many different time periods. What changes when your collection is a diachronic
corpus spanning decades or even centuries? The temporal structure is a lightweight
annotation that provides powerful new handles for users to explore the collection,
and engage with the material from many different angles. There are also fun-
damental consequences for the design of digital library systems and back office
systems empowering curators and digital humanities researchers to explore the
data at scale. We study this question for collections of parliamentary proceedings
spanning multiple centuries in a uniform format.


2   Biography

Jaap Kamps is an associate professor of information retrieval at the University
of Amsterdam, PI of a stream of large research projects on information access
funded by NWO and the EU, vice-chair of the ACM SIG-IR, organizer of eval-
uation efforts at TREC and CLEF, and a prolific organizer of conferences and
workshops. His research interests span all facets of information storage and re-
trieval – from user-centric to system-centric, and from basic research to applied
research. A common element is the combination of textual information with
additional structure, such as document structure, Web-link structure, and/or
contextual information, such as meta-data, anchors, tags, clicks, or profiles.

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