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        <article-title>Tag Clouds and Old Maps: Annotations as Linked Spatiotemporal Data in the Cultural Heritage Domain</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <string-name>Rainer Simon</string-name>
          <email>rainer.simon@ait.ac.at</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff0">0</xref>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <string-name>Christian Sadilek</string-name>
          <email>christian.sadilek@ait.ac.at</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff0">0</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <string-name>Joachim Korb</string-name>
          <email>joachim.korb@ait.ac.at</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff0">0</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <string-name>Matthias Baldauf</string-name>
          <email>baldauf@ftw.at</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <string-name>Bernhard Haslhofer</string-name>
          <email>bernhard.haslhofer@univie.ac.at</email>
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          <label>0</label>
          <institution>Austrian Institute of Technology, Digital Memory Engineering</institution>
        </aff>
        <aff id="aff1">
          <label>1</label>
          <institution>Telecommunications Research Center Vienna</institution>
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          <label>2</label>
          <institution>University of Vienna, Department of Distributed and Multimedia Systems</institution>
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      <abstract>
        <p>In this paper we present a Web-based system for annotating digitised old maps. Using bibliographic metadata and geographical reference information associated with the map, annotations are represented as spatially and temporally defined RDF resources. At the same time, named entity recognition and semantic link discovery are applied to each annotation's text content to further facilitate its interlinking within the Web of Data. To ensure quality and correctness, the system relies on human feedback. This feedback is introduced through a novel interaction metaphor: contextual link suggestions are continuously generated in the background, and superimposed on the annotated map region in the form of a tag cloud. The user can create semantic links by simply clicking on the corresponding tags. The system thus acts both as a visualisation aid for contextually relevant linked data and as a tool for authoring new linked spatiotemporal data entities.</p>
      </abstract>
      <kwd-group>
        <kwd>Linked Data</kwd>
        <kwd>Tag Cloud</kwd>
        <kwd>Cultural Heritage</kwd>
        <kwd>Semantic Tagging</kwd>
        <kwd>Public Participation</kwd>
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      <title>1 Introduction</title>
      <p>The practice of annotation has traditionally been playing a crucial role in the cultural
heritage domain. On the one hand, annotations enable scholars to share and exchange
knowledge, and work collaboratively in the interpretation and analysis of cultural
heritage artefacts. On the other hand, annotations are a valuable addition to traditional
metadata, which is essential for organising and cataloguing, as well as for searching
and retrieving of objects in cultural heritage collections.</p>
      <p>
        As institutions are making increasing efforts to digitise their holdings and start
making them available to the public over the World Wide Web [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref23">23</xref>
        ], the role of
annotations is also evolving: institutions are discovering the added value of
usercontributed knowledge. The Living Memory Annotation Tool [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref10">10</xref>
        ]; the National
Library of Australia’s Newspapers Digitisation Program [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref8">8</xref>
        ]; the LEMO Annotation
Framework [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref7">7</xref>
        ]; a variety of initiatives and online community projects such as
Weaving History1 or The Great War Archive Flickr Group2; and, last but not least, the
authors’ own contribution to the Europeana3 cultural heritage Web portal [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref21">21</xref>
        ], [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref22">22</xref>
        ]
are examples which indicate that the idea of harnessing the collective volunteer effort
of the public to accumulate, enrich and preserve valuable cultural heritage content is
gaining momentum.
      </p>
      <p>
        As a consequence, the need for data and metadata interoperability in the cultural
heritage domain is growing. Yet despite some efforts to develop collection-spanning
metadata vocabularies [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref20">20</xref>
        ], interoperability of annotations is still an area of ongoing
and active research. Most institutions employ their own proprietary in-house
annotation solutions and models [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref7">7</xref>
        ], and global digital cultural heritage is still
distributed among isolated islands [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref9">9</xref>
        ].
      </p>
      <p>In this paper we present ongoing work on a Web-based annotation system for
digitised old maps. The system is being developed over the course of the EU-funded
EuropeanaConnect project, and leverages the principles of linked data to achieve
interoperability of annotations. Spatial and temporal information plays a crucial role
in this context: old maps are, on the one hand, an inherently spatial medium, because
they are explicitly concerned with the representation of geography; on the other hand,
they are catalogued with provenance and temporal metadata, because they are part of
cultural heritage collections.</p>
      <p>The remainder of this paper is structured as follows: in Section 2, we present an
overview of our current prototype, which allows users to create annotations on old
maps, and interactively enrich them with semantic links. Interactive feedback is
thereby supported through a novel interaction mechanism based on the tag cloud
metaphor, which we introduce in Section 3. We conclude the paper with a discussion
of related work in Section 4, and an outlook on future work in Section 5.</p>
    </sec>
    <sec id="sec-2">
      <title>2 System Overview</title>
      <p>One of the objectives of the EuropeanaConnect project is the creation of portal
technologies that enable community involvement on the Europeana digital cultural
heritage Web portal. Our specific interest in the project is the design of services and
user interfaces that enable public participation by means of media annotation. The
goal is to extend Europeana with multiple dedicated annotation frontends for each of
the various types of media hosted on the portal – images, maps, hypertext, audio and
video – while storing all annotations according to a unified media-independent model.
1 http://weavinghistory.org/
2 http://www.flickr.com/groups/greatwararchive/
3 http://europeana.eu/
Our map annotation prototype is a browser-based rich Web application, realised with
the Google Web Toolkit4. The prototype integrates three basic functionalities: (1) A
map browsing interface that provides a drag- and zoom-able representation of the
digitised map. (2) Geo-referencing functionality that allows users to establish an
(approximate) correspondence between the map’s image-coordinates and
geographical coordinates. (3) An annotation toolset including client-side GUI features
that allow the user to draw points, lines and polygon shapes on the map and add free
annotation text, combined with server-side functionality needed to store annotations,
create links to external linked data sources, and expose the annotations as Linked
Data. A screenshot of the prototype is shown in Fig. 1.</p>
      <sec id="sec-2-1">
        <title>2.1 Map Browsing</title>
        <p>The prototype’s main user interface component is the map viewer. It is based on the
open source OpenLayers5 JavaScript Web mapping library, and provides a full-screen
drag- and zoom-able representation of the digitised map. Similar to popular Web map
services like Google Maps6 or Yahoo! Maps7, OpenLayers supports map tiling to
4 http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
5 http://openlayers.org/
6 http://maps.google.com/
7 http://maps.yahoo.com/
minimise download latency when browsing high-resolution digitised maps. Instead of
publishing each map as a single image file, collection holders can publish their maps
as sets of (pre- or dynamically generated) image tiles, which the OpenLayers viewer
will download progressively as needed, as the user pans and zooms the map.</p>
        <p>
          Since, however, many collection holders (including Europeana member
institutions) still publish their maps on the Web as single images rather than tile sets,
the prototype integrates functionality to generate tiles from any online image on the
fly, based on the open source GDAL2tiles utility [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref15">15</xref>
          ].
        </p>
      </sec>
      <sec id="sec-2-2">
        <title>2.2 Geo-Referencing</title>
        <p>
          In order to establish a correspondence between the digitised map’s image coordinates
and a well-defined geographical coordinate system, the map must be geo-referenced.
Geo-referencing of old maps, however, can be a major challenge. In the vast majority
of cases, the metrical properties of the map will be uncertain: the system of reference
may be undefined; accuracy and scale of representation are likely to vary across the
map; the projection system may be approximate or even non-existent [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref3">3</xref>
          ].
Nonetheless, if one accepts a certain level of inaccuracy, literature suggests that an
approximate geo-reference can be established, at least as long as the map preserves
basic topological properties.
        </p>
        <p>
          A common practice to geo-reference a map with unknown properties is through the
use of control points: control points are identifiable points (e.g. landmarks, cities,
natural formations, etc.) on the map to which the geographical coordinates are known.
These control points can then be used as a basis for analytical translations between
both coordinate spaces [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref6">6</xref>
          ]. Alternatively, “trial and error” can be used to test the old
map against a known map projection model [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref5">5</xref>
          ]. In this case, the control points can be
used to quantify the amount of agreement with the tested projection. Experimental
results using the above approaches are reported e.g. in [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref3">3</xref>
          ], [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref5">5</xref>
          ] or [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref24">24</xref>
          ].
        </p>
        <p>
          In the current implementation, our prototype allows users to collaboratively add
control points to the map. Translation between map-image coordinates and
geographical coordinates is performed by computing a local affine transformation
from the closest neighbour control points. This way, approximate geo-referencing is
established, which improves successively as users add more control points to the map.
First results obtained with this implementation using sample maps from the 16th
century are reported in [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref22">22</xref>
          ].
        </p>
      </sec>
      <sec id="sec-2-3">
        <title>2.3 Annotation</title>
        <p>For the implementation of annotation functionality, the prototype relies in part on
existing functionality developed for EuropeanaConnect and its predecessor TELplus.
In particular, the prototype makes use of the same annotation management component
as the existing EuropeanaConnect image annotation frontend, and of a common
server-side annotation ‘middleware’.</p>
        <p>The annotation management component provides GUI elements for viewing,
creating and editing annotation text, for creating replies (and reply threads), for
annotation ‘scoping’ (setting an annotation’s visibility to public or private), and a
basic moderation feature that allows users to report inappropriate annotations to the
system administrator via E-Mail (see Fig.1).</p>
        <p>
          The component exchanges annotations with the middleware through a REST
interface, using an RDF/XML representation based on the W3C Annotea [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref11">11</xref>
          ] model
[
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref7">7</xref>
          ]. The middleware can be configured to work with different storage back ends such
as an RDF triple store or a relational database, and exposes annotations on the Web as
RDF resources so that external data sets can link to them from outside.
        </p>
        <p>In order to achieve deeper integration of the annotations with the Web of Data, we
have extended the existing annotation management component to allow for the
creation of outbound links. This way, users can create semantic references that point
from the annotation to related resources in other data sets. The details of the
semiautomatic approach we devised for this purpose is described in detail in the following
section.</p>
      </sec>
    </sec>
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      <title>3 Annotations as Linked Spatiotemporal Data</title>
      <p>Our design approach was guided by two key requirements. First, we aimed for a
process that is human-controlled. While the system should suggest potential links
automatically, the user should have an immediate and intuitive way of verifying,
accepting or rejecting them interactively. Second, we aimed for a system architecture
that makes it easy to use, chain together and exchange different tools, APIs, and data
sources to derive the link suggestions. With regard to the kinds of links that are
suggested to the user, our prototype distinguishes between three different types of
resources to which an annotation can link:
1.
2.
3.</p>
      <p>Geographical features that lie inside the annotated map region.</p>
      <p>
        Geographical features that are mentioned in the annotation text (irrespective
of whether they are located inside or outside the annotated map region).
Any recognisable non-spatial named entity (e.g. person, date, organisation,
etc.) which can be identified in the annotation text and where an appropriate
link to an encyclopaedic data set such as e.g. DBpedia [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">1</xref>
        ] can be established.
      </p>
      <sec id="sec-3-1">
        <title>3.1 Semantic Linking Procedure</title>
        <p>When creating a new annotation in the prototype, the first step is to draw a point, a
line or a polygon on the map to indicate the location or area to be annotated. In cases
in which the map is already geo-referenced with control points, the system will
compute geographical coordinates for the annotated region. Using this information,
the system will obtain link suggestions for the first resource type mentioned above
(geographical features inside the annotated region). In the current implementation,
Geonames8 is used as linked data source for this purpose, since it provides a
8 http://www.geonames.org/ontology/
convenient query API for retrieving references to places within a specified bounding
box.</p>
        <p>While the user starts editing the annotation text, the system begins to successively
suggest contextual semantic links. In general, the procedure for generating those
suggestions is comprised of two steps: (1) The unstructured annotation text is parsed
for named entities. (2) Recognized entities are linked to semantic resources in the
namespace of a linked data set, if possible. A number of free as well as commercial
tools which implement above functionalities have recently become available. As
mentioned above, our idea was to test different combinations in our prototype. For the
named entity recognition step, we experimented with Yahoo! Shortcuts9 (as part of a
Yahoo! Pipes10 workflow), the Yahoo! Placemaker11 API and the DIGMAP
Geoparser12. For the semantic linking step, we relied on Geonames (which only
resolves place names, but no other named entities) and DBpedia Lookup13 to obtain
dereferenceable URIs for the identified entities. As an alternative, we experimented
with the OpenCalais REST API14 which provides named entity recognition and
semantic linking in a single, combined step.
An example of the annotation model resulting out of this process is shown in Fig. 2.
The annotation links to the annotated map area using the annotates predicate,
which is derived from the W3C Annotea annotation schema. The object in this case is
9 http://shortcuts.yahoo.com/
10 http://pipes.yahoo.com/
11 http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/placemaker/ (Note: resolves place names only.)
12 http://geoparser.digmap.eu/
13 http://lookup.dbpedia.org/
14 http://www.opencalais.com/documentation/calais-web-service-api/
a representation of the spatial fragment (point, line or polygon) expressed in SVG15
(using the map image’s pixel coordinate space). Links to resources of the first type
(geographical features inside the annotated map region) are expressed through a
custom extension we introduced for this purpose: the spatially-contains
predicate. Links to resources of the second and the third type (i.e. geographical
features and other named entities in the annotation text, respectively) are expressed
using the rdfs:seeAlso core property. Date information obtained from the map’s
metadata is included in the annotation by means of a Dublin Core16 date element,
formatted according to the DCMI Period Encoding Scheme17.</p>
      </sec>
      <sec id="sec-3-2">
        <title>3.2 The Tag Cloud Metaphor for Semi-Automatic Semantic Linking</title>
        <p>
          On the Web, tag clouds have been gaining popularity as a way to compactly and
efficiently visualise dominant topics and emerging key themes in structured or
unstructured datasets. They are built from keywords (“tags”) which users have freely
assigned to digital resources and show the most frequently assigned tags in different
font sizes according to their popularity. Tag clouds are especially prevalent on
userdriven Web sites such as photo sharing or social bookmarking sites, where hundreds
of thousands of tagged items may be hosted and organised. The resulting
representation not only eases the browsing and searching of the dataset; it also helps
to get the “gist” of the underlying items by providing a content-centric compact
overview [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref17">17</xref>
          ].
        </p>
        <p>
          In previous work [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref22">22</xref>
          ] we have discussed the tag cloud metaphor as a means to
convey a “sense of context” to users while they are exploring old maps: as users hover
over a region of the map with their mouse, a tag cloud can be superimposed directly
around the mouse cursor. The tag cloud can summarize dominant terms appearing in
other users’ annotations, or in external sources of geo-referenced information such as
Wikipedia. Users can thus get an overview of relevant topics related to the map region
they are focusing on, without needing to divide their attention between multiple areas
of the screen.
        </p>
        <p>The work described in this paper builds on this idea, but extends it with regard to
how the tags are being employed in the user interface. In the previous scenario, the
tag cloud served primarily as a visualisation aid. In the case of our semantic linking
prototype, the tag cloud becomes a dynamic user interface element which facilitates
direct manipulation of the annotation’s underlying data model. Each tag represents a
semantic link suggestion generated by the system. New tags are added to the tag cloud
as additional suggestions become available, e.g. after the user has finished drawing or
editing the annotation shape, or while the user is typing annotation text. The three
different types of link suggestions (as defined above) are distinguished in different
colours. In cases where the services used to generate link suggestions provide an
implicit or explicit relevancy or recognition certainty metric, this value can be used to
define the size of the tag. Suggestions with a higher relevance are drawn in a larger
15 http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
16 http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/
17 http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-period/
font than less relevant suggestions. (For example, Geonames sorts results by
population and filters out smaller places that are in the vicinity of larger places;
Yahoo! Shortcuts and OpenCalais both provide an explicit “prediction probability” or
“relevance score”, respectively.)
There are two areas of related research we consider particularly relevant to our work:
(1) automatic and semi-automatic approaches to interlinking of open data and (2) the
application of tag clouds in the context of linked data and the Semantic Web.
18 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/</p>
        <p>gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g3200+ct000725C))
19 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillars_of_Hercules</p>
        <p>
          A system which combines named entity recognition with human feedback to
generate semantic links between documents (e.g. editorial Web sites or news articles)
and DBpedia resources is described by Kobilarov et al. [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref12">12</xref>
          ]. In their work, the authors
also remark on their experience that the user interface of any semantic annotation tool
is critical to the creation of high quality metadata; and that high quality automated
link suggestions are needed to make the annotation process as painless as possible. A
framework which allows users to find semantic relations between entities in different
data sets is presented by Bizer et al. [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref4">4</xref>
          ]. Their system features a declarative language
which allows users to define a set of linking criteria a priori, and then identifies links
which fulfil the specified criteria in an unattended process. An automatic approach for
interlinking is presented by Raimond et al. [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref16">16</xref>
          ], who discuss the interlinking of
music-related datasets. They point out the challenges involved with naïve automatic
interlinking approaches (based on matching of string literals), and present an
algorithm for disambiguation based on graph matching. Furthermore, Auer et al. [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref2">2</xref>
          ]
discuss a solution for finding owl:sameAs mappings between geospatial linked data
entities based on supervised machine learning.
        </p>
        <p>
          With regard to the application of tag clouds in a Semantic Web context, there is
related research on “augmented tagging” systems, i.e. systems which allow users to
assign tags to digital content which are semantically meaningful in a
machinereadable way, rather than free-form. For example, Passant and Laublet [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref13">13</xref>
          ] discuss a
framework where users can define tags, relationships between them, and their
meanings. The framework relies on a central server through which the tags and
relationships can be shared within a community, and has later resulted in an
implementation called LODr [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref14">14</xref>
          ]. Another stream of work concerns the visual design
and layout of tag clouds to better reflect semantic relations between tags. Schrammel
et al. [
          <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref19">19</xref>
          ] survey some recent research in this field. Furthermore, they present a user
study which provides evidence that “semantic clustering” (i.e. arranging tags so that
related tags are kept close to each other) can increase a tag cloud’s usability with
regard to visual searching tasks. However, they also acknowledge that the topic of
semantic presentation is yet to be fully understood.
        </p>
      </sec>
    </sec>
    <sec id="sec-4">
      <title>5 Discussion and Future Work</title>
      <p>In this paper we have discussed a use case from the cultural heritage domain in which
the principles of linked spatiotemporal data can be applied: the collaborative
annotation of digitised old maps. We have presented a prototype annotation system
which records annotations along with both a spatial and a temporal footprint, and
exposes them to the Web of Data. To derive the spatial footprint, the system relies on
geographical reference information, provided collaboratively by users through control
points. The temporal footprint is taken from metadata associated with the map.</p>
      <p>In addition, our system supports the user in the process of creating links to related
RDF resources in other datasets. Link suggestions are created automatically, based (1)
on the geographical footprint of the annotation, and (2) on an analysis of the
annotation text, which is performed with external named entity recognition and
semantic link discovery tools. A key design goal of our prototype was to enable an
immediate and direct way of including human feedback into the semantic linking
process to ensure the quality and correctness of the generated links. In order to
achieve this, we have introduced a novel interaction approach, based on the tag cloud
metaphor. This approach allows users to quickly survey link suggestions which may
be relevant to an annotation they are creating, and to confirm valid suggestions with a
single click.</p>
      <p>
        As future work, we plan to focus on several issues. First, we intend to investigate
how the use of named entity recognition and link discovery tools can be made more
customisable. In the current prototype, a wrapper component must be implemented
for each new tool, so that the prototype can access it in a uniform way. Tool chaining
is done programmatically. A future version should provide a more declarative
approach and make it easier to use and combine different tools and data sources for
generating link suggestions. Experiments with the BPEL workflow execution
language yielded some promising first results [
        <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref18">18</xref>
        ]. However, they also made a
number of significant shortcomings apparent, which make BPEL a challenging and
cumbersome option in this context: e.g. high runtime performance demands of the
execution engine, as well as high complexity and a steep learning curve, due to lack
of good (open source) authoring tool support, in particular with regard to the
orchestration of RESTful Web services.
      </p>
      <p>A second key item for future work is the explicit modelling of the geographical
footprint in the annotation. As explained in Section 3.1, the present annotation model
expresses the spatial footprint only in terms of pixel coordinates (in SVG format), not
in terms of geographical coordinates (e.g. through a GeoRDF20 representation). It
would therefore not be possible to (easily) perform geographical queries on the
annotations. For our current prototype, we intentionally decided to follow this
approach. The reason for this is that, since the geo-reference of the map is based on
user-contributed control points, it will improve as users add or modify points.
Consequently, an explicit geographical footprint would potentially become outdated
and require re-computation after every change to the control points. The current
prototype therefore computes the footprints on the fly when needed, e.g. when they
are exported from the system to the OGC KML21 format for viewing in a virtual globe
browser. As future work, we intend to investigate strategies for addressing this issue
in a more scalable way (e.g. by providing an infrastructure that records whether
changes have been made to a map’s control point set, and performs re-computation of
all affected annotations in a nightly batch job.)</p>
      <p>Last but not least, we aim to further explore the use of the tag cloud metaphor in
the context of linked data, and experiment with different presentation, layout and
interaction concepts.</p>
    </sec>
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      <title>6 Acknowledgements</title>
      <p>This paper presents work done for the best practice network EuropeanaConnect.
EuropeanaConnect is a project funded by the European Commission within the area
20 http://esw.w3.org/GeoRDF
21 http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/kml
of Digital Libraries of the eContentplus Programme and lead by the Austrian National
Library.</p>
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