D-Square

Digital Databases and Digital Tools

for

WBD and WLD

Folkert de Vriend

17-05-06

Outline

• Digitisation project (shortly)• Plans and ideas for papers

A. Data driven clusteringB. Open Language ResourcesC. Cartography

People

CLSTLou BovesHenk van den HeuvelFolkert de Vriend

CLSRoeland van HoutJoep KruijsenJos Swanenberg

PolderlandTheo van de Heuvel

WBD page ->

Data conversion overview ->

Deel IIIMS-Word

Editors

/

Management

Users

Analog Digital Digital Analog

(parts of)Vol. I+IIMS-Word

Filing cards

WebsiteWBD/WLD

with tools forsearching andcartography

EnricheddataXML

Raw dataFileM Pro

(parts of)Vol. I+IIMacWrite

Questionnaires Nijmegen and

Leuven

Questionnaires (chiefly) Meertens

Raw data

Vol. I + II Vol. III

Edited data

Specializedprint editions (dialect atlas

or local dictionary)

Online DB WBD

(Polderland)

Edited dataXML

Vol. IIIFileM Pro

SGV on CD(Polderland)

Vol. III

Web access

Taxonomic acces to dataSearch interface

Research ideas and plans

A: Data driven clusteringHuman interpretation of

patterns vs

computational clustering based on distances. (lexical or phonetic)

B: Open Language Resources

• “Wikipedia style” LR• Digitisation not the end of

the evolution of a LR• Evolution of Web seems to

be towards “Social Computing”

• Think of railroads -> cars

Policing

• How to automate police activities regarding open

(language) resources?• Maybe “distant”

entries/edits are more suspicious. When distant ->

notify police.

C: Cartography• Cartography as tool not just for illustration -> Google Earth.• Advantages:

• Different views on the data.• Easy to link different resources (also for end user)

Implementation

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• Short termPaper on data driven clustering.Paper on cartography.

• Longer termPaper(s) on Open LR / Social Computing.