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Abstract
Building a Neighborhood-Specific Gazetteer for a Digital Archive
Track: Metadata and Data Publishing
Author(s): Christine Lam, John Wilson
This paper presents the strategy used to build a gazetteer for the Los Angeles Digital Archive. The archive contains more than 250,000 objects in numerous formats, and a gazetteer is needed to (1) facilitate the specification of geographic footprints in the Dublin Core metadata records and (2) support the search for and retrieval of selected objects based on location, time, keyword, and/or format. The search and retrieval interface utilizes ArcIMS, and the neighborhood shapes specified in the gazetteer were generated from published map labels in ArcInfo. The gazetteer and advanced search capabilities are integral components of USC's Next Generation Library Initiative.
Christine Lam
University of Southern California
Geography
KAP 416
Los Angeles , CA 90089-0255
USA
Phone: 213-740-8263
Fax: 213-740-9687
E-mail: csl@usc.edu
John Wilson
University of Southern California
Geography
KAP 416
Los Angeles 90089-0255
USA
Phone: 213-740-1908
Fax: 213-740-9687
E-mail: jpwilson@usc.edu