The project "UGESCO" (Upscaling the Geo-temporal Enrichment, exploration and exploitation of Scientific Collections) aims to work on the problem of spatio-temporal metadata, collected from digital collections at the Federal Scientific Institutions

The majority of digital collections at the Federal Scientific Institutions (FSIs) still have (meta)data issues affecting the exploration, interpretation and exploitation of their content. The interdisciplinary UGESCO project (Upscaling the Geo-temporal Enrichment, Exploitation and Exploitation of Scientific Collections) aims to work more specifically on the problem of spatio-temporal metadata - e.g., the exact date and location of a photograph. To this end, the project partners are working to develop tools for extracting and enriching these geo-temporal (meta)data. They also investigate the added value of microtask crowdsourcing in validating and improving the generated metadata. Finally, Geo-temporal mapping services will be developed to visualize and query the data in an end user-oriented way.

Partners: Seth van Hooland - ReSIC, Faculté de Lettres, Traduction et Communication ULB, UGent (ELIS and CARTOGIS departments), KULeuven (ITEC), Archives générales du royaume (CegeSoma).

End of the project: 15/03/2019

Dates
Created on August 29, 2018