Purpose–The National Archives (TNA) is the UK Government's official archive. It stores and
maintains records spanning over a 1,000 years in both physical and digital form. Much of the …

For historians and other scholars of the human past, gazetteers are best seen as records of
events in the histories of places, rather than as indexes of named places per se. This paper …

For an information retrieval system to be successful, it must have the ability to rank search
results. As web search engines are the most often used and—in terms of ranking …

Events and periods are not objectively existing phenomena, but concepts we use to
organize our knowledge of history. They make historical change comprehensible and help …

摘要文章利用Web of Science 平台检索, 对国外馆藏资源可视化研究做了全面而深入的调研,
发现馆藏数字资源可视化研究最为活跃. 从关联表示可视化, 查询过程可视化, 检索结果可视化 …

The reference library plays a valuable role in a print environment for at least two purposes:
direct ready reference, the seeking or verification of basic facts; and finding contextual …

The British Library partnered with Klokan Technologies to customise the Georeferencer
application for crowdsourcing of spatial metadata capture for two of its most important …

Historians and other humanists interested in modeling the spatiality of past places should
consider the value of digital gazetteers, which are indexes of place names. In contrast to …

Searches for cartographic materials have previously been carried out using conventional
library search systems. However, this kind of search method often proves to be inadequate …

This article describes a bibliographic mapping project recently undertaken at the Library of
the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW). The MARC Advisory Committee …