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59 f<strong>in</strong>d all articles that reference Verg. Aen. regardless of the language they are written <strong>in</strong>). They also require, as Romanello admitted, a high level of participation by both classical e-journals and relevant digital collections <strong>in</strong> terms of implement<strong>in</strong>g such microformats and CTS protocols, a situation that seems unlikely. Another approach to the challenge of semantic l<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g has been <strong>in</strong>troduced by a project between the Classics Department at Cornell University, which hosts the editor of the L’Année Philologique on the Internet, and Cornell University Library (Ruddy 2009). This project was awarded a plann<strong>in</strong>g grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to explore us<strong>in</strong>g OpenURL 177 to provide l<strong>in</strong>ks from canonical citations <strong>in</strong> L’Année Philologique to their full text <strong>in</strong> both commercial and open-access classics digital libraries. OpenURL was chosen because it provides a uniform l<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g syntax that was system- and vendor-<strong>in</strong>dependent and m<strong>in</strong>imized the cost of creat<strong>in</strong>g and ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g l<strong>in</strong>ks. Other stated advantages of OpenURL were that it easily allowed both one-to-many l<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g and “appropriate copy l<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g,” or the ability to l<strong>in</strong>k a user to content they are licensed to see. For example, if a user from outside the library community tried to access a restricted resource such as the TLG, he or she would be directed to the PDL. One of the major project tasks therefore was to create a metadata format that could “reliably reference canonical citations” (Ruddy 2009). The encod<strong>in</strong>g of classical author names was particularly problematic s<strong>in</strong>ce OpenURL metadata presupposes a modern Western name for an author. Ruddy reasoned that any metadata format would have to allow multiple ways of encod<strong>in</strong>g author forms. In terms of citation structure itself, they did not adopt the CTS but <strong>in</strong>stead chose an abstract approach to recognize the typical hierarchical structure of works. In addition to metadata challenges there were a number of implementation issues. With the normal use of OpenURL, the resolution of a l<strong>in</strong>k to a resource is left to a user’s local l<strong>in</strong>k resolver. The type of solution chosen by this project, however, <strong>in</strong>cludes provid<strong>in</strong>g an extra level of detailed knowledge, and, as Ruddy noted, only “uncerta<strong>in</strong> commercial <strong>in</strong>centive for l<strong>in</strong>k resolver vendors.” To solve this issue, Ruddy proposed and consequently created a “doma<strong>in</strong>-specific community-supported knowledge base” that was ultimately titled the Classical Works Knowledge Base (CWKB). 178 The f<strong>in</strong>al prototype solution implemented by the project was to use the CWKB as an <strong>in</strong>termediate resolver/knowledge base that could augment and normalize metadata values, provide specialized l<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>formation, and support access to free resources for users without a local l<strong>in</strong>k resolver. The basic user scenario they envisioned <strong>in</strong>volved a user click<strong>in</strong>g on a canonical text reference <strong>in</strong> a JSTOR article or L’Annee article abstract that was encoded with an OpenURL that would then direct the user to the CWKB (which would provide a normalized authority form of author and title and provide a list of services for that work), then to the local l<strong>in</strong>k resolver (if one was available), and f<strong>in</strong>ally to a HTML page with l<strong>in</strong>k options such as the library catalog, <strong>in</strong>terlibrary loan, text <strong>in</strong> orig<strong>in</strong>al language, or text <strong>in</strong> translation. If some users did not have a l<strong>in</strong>k resolver, the service could direct them to appropriate free resources by redirect<strong>in</strong>g them to the CWKB. Ruddy argued that this model could have wide applications, s<strong>in</strong>ce it could be “useful to any discipl<strong>in</strong>e that cites works <strong>in</strong>dependent of specific editions or translations” and also offered one solution for cha<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g l<strong>in</strong>k resolvers and knowledge bases together to provide enhanced services to users. 177 http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/openurl/default.htm 178 http://www.cwkb.org/
60 Text M<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g, Quotation Detection, and Authorship Attribution A number of potential technologies could benefit both from automatic citation detection and from the broader use of more standardized citation encod<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> digital corpora; these <strong>in</strong>clude text m<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g applications, such as the study of text reuse, as well as quotation detection and authorship attribution. While the research presented <strong>in</strong> this section made use of various text-m<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g and NLP techniques with unlabeled corpora, digital texts with large numbers of citations either automatically or manually marked up could provide useful tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g data for this k<strong>in</strong>d of work. Regardless of how the <strong>in</strong>formation is detected and extracted, the ability to exam<strong>in</strong>e text reuse, trace quotations, 179 and analyze <strong>in</strong>dividual authors and study different patterns of authorship will be <strong>in</strong>creas<strong>in</strong>gly important services expected not only by users of mass-digitization projects but of classical digital libraries as well. The eAQUA project, 180 based <strong>in</strong> Germany, is broadly <strong>in</strong>vestigat<strong>in</strong>g how text-m<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g technologies might be used <strong>in</strong> the analysis of classical texts through six specific subprojects (reconstruction of the lost works of the Atthidographers, text reuse <strong>in</strong> Plato, papyri classification, extraction of templates for <strong>in</strong>scriptions, metrical analysis of Plautus, and text completion of fragmentary texts). 181 “The ma<strong>in</strong> focus of this project is to break down research questions from the field of Classics <strong>in</strong> a reusable format fitt<strong>in</strong>g with NLP algorithms,” Büchler et al. (2008) submitted, “and to apply this type of approach to the data from the Ancient sources.” This approach of first determ<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g how classical scholars actually conduct research and then attempt<strong>in</strong>g to match those processes with appropriate algorithms shows the importance of understand<strong>in</strong>g the discipl<strong>in</strong>e for which you are design<strong>in</strong>g tools. This is an essential po<strong>in</strong>t that is seen throughout this review. The basic vision of eAQUA is to present a unified approach consist<strong>in</strong>g of “Data, Algorithms and Applications,” and this project specifically addresses both the development of applications (research questions) and algorithms (NLP, text m<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g, co-occurrence analysis, cluster<strong>in</strong>g, classification). Data or corpora from research partners will be imported through standardized data <strong>in</strong>terfaces <strong>in</strong>to an eAQUA portal that is be<strong>in</strong>g developed. This portal will also provide access to all the structured data that are extracted through a variety of web services that can be used by scholars. 182 One area of active research that is be<strong>in</strong>g conducted by the eAQUA project is the use of citation detection and textual reuse <strong>in</strong> the TLG corpus to <strong>in</strong>vestigate “the reception of Plato as a case study of textual reuse on ancient Greek texts” (Büchler and Geßner 2009). In their work, they first extracted word-by-word citations by comb<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g n-gram overlaps and significant terms for several works of Plato; second, they loosened the constra<strong>in</strong>ts on syntactic word order to f<strong>in</strong>d citations. The authors emphasized that develop<strong>in</strong>g appropriate visualization tools is essential to study textual reuse s<strong>in</strong>ce textm<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g approaches to corpora typically produce a huge amount of data that simply cannot be explored manually. Their paper thus offers several <strong>in</strong>trigu<strong>in</strong>g visualizations, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g highlight<strong>in</strong>g the differences <strong>in</strong> citations to works of Plato across time (from the Neo-Platonists to the Middle 179 Prelim<strong>in</strong>ary research on quotation identification and track<strong>in</strong>g has been reported for Google Books (Schilit and Kolak 2008). 180 http://www.eaqua.net/en/<strong>in</strong>dex.php 181 The computational challenges of automatic metrical analysis and fragmentary texts have received some research attention. For metrical analysis, see Deufert et al. (2010), Eder (2007), Fusi (2008) and Papakitsos (2011) For fragmentary texts, see Berti et al. (2009) and Romanello et al. (2009b). The use of digital technology for <strong>in</strong>scriptions and papyri is covered <strong>in</strong> their respective sections. 182 Accord<strong>in</strong>g to the W3C, a web service can be def<strong>in</strong>ed as “a software system designed to support <strong>in</strong>teroperable mach<strong>in</strong>e-to-mach<strong>in</strong>e <strong>in</strong>teraction over a network. It has an <strong>in</strong>terface described <strong>in</strong> a mach<strong>in</strong>e-processable format (specifically WSDL). Other systems <strong>in</strong>teract with the Web service <strong>in</strong> a manner prescribed by its description us<strong>in</strong>g SOAP messages, typically conveyed us<strong>in</strong>g HTTP with an XML serialization <strong>in</strong> conjunction with other Web-related standard.” (http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-arch/#whatis). Two important related standards are SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), a “lightweight protocol <strong>in</strong>tended for exchang<strong>in</strong>g structured <strong>in</strong>formation <strong>in</strong> a decentralized, distributed environment” (http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/) and WSDL (Web Services Description Language), an “XML format for describ<strong>in</strong>g network services as a set of endpo<strong>in</strong>ts operat<strong>in</strong>g on messages conta<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g either document-oriented or procedure-oriented <strong>in</strong>formation.” (http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl)
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