The linked books project
The Scholar Index was born out of Linked Books, a project developed at DHLAB, EPFL and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The goal of the project is to index the literature on the history of Venice through citations to both primary and secondary sources.
The Scholar Index consists of two applications:
– the digital library AcCESS: The Scholar Library
– the citation index ACCESS: The Venice Scholar
The SCHOLAR LIBRARY is a digital library, where users can search for literature, read the works that have been digitised, perform full text search, and explore links to VENICE SCHOLAR, the citation index.
The VENICE SCHOLAR is the citation index of the literature on the history of Venice. It aggregates all citations extracted from the digitized collections of the partner libraries and link it to their catalogues.
Technologies
The automatic extraction of references is done using trained machine learning methods. The complexity of references format has been one the major issue to be able to correctly isolate references within texts.
Open Citations corpus
The citation data underlying the Venice Scholar are modelled using the OpenCitations Data Model, and will use the OpenCitations Corpus as its publication platform, thus enriching this corpus with some 4 million references “recovered” from historical and current publications about the history of Venice.
integration with europeana
Thanks to a Europeana Research Development Grant, the Venice Scholar is currently being extended to enable the serendipitous discovery of contents from Europeana. Two new functionalities will be added to allow Venice Scholar users to find materials of possible interest to them and related to the history of Venice.
Funders
Funding period: 06/2015 – 08/2018 link
Funding period: 05/2018 – 08/2018 link