Emma Thomson

ORCID: 0000-0002-5896-7922
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Research Areas
  • Geographic Information Systems Studies
  • Semantic Web and Ontologies
  • Web Data Mining and Analysis
  • Library Science and Information Systems
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Digital Humanities and Scholarship
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
  • Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
  • Libraries, Manuscripts, and Books
  • Musicology and Musical Analysis
  • Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques
  • Music Technology and Sound Studies
  • Music and Audio Processing
  • Topic Modeling
  • Diverse Musicological Studies
  • Data Quality and Management
  • Diversity and Career in Medicine

California University of Pennsylvania
2020-2021

University of Pennsylvania
2020-2021

Abstract Manuscripts are a crucial form of evidence for research into all aspects premodern European history and culture, there numerous databases devoted to describing them in detail. This descriptive information, however, is typically available only separate data silos based on incompatible models user interfaces. As result, it has been difficult study manuscripts comprehensively across these various platforms. To address this challenge, team manuscript scholars computer scientists worked...

10.1002/asi.24499 article EN Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 2021-05-26

The Mapping Manuscript Migrations (MMM) project transformed three separate datasets relating to the history and provenance of medieval Renaissance manuscripts into a unified knowledge graph. source databases are: Schoenberg Database Manuscripts, from Institute for Studies, University Pennsylvania; Bibale, Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes (IRHT-CNRS, Paris); Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries, Bodleian Oxford. data consist more than 20 million RDF triples which have been...

10.5334/johd.14 article EN cc-by Journal of Open Humanities Data 2020-01-01

Although the RDF query language SPARQL has a reputation for being opaque and difficult traditional humanists to learn, it holds great potential opening up vast amounts of Linked Open Data researchers willing take on its challenges. This is especially true in field premodern manuscripts studies as more datasets relating study manuscript culture are made available online. paper explores results two-year long process collaborative learning knowledge transfer between computer scientists...

10.16995/dm.8064 article EN cc-by Digital Medievalist 2021-12-23

This paper examines the use of Linked Open Data in research field medieval studies. We report on a survey common identifiers and vocabularies used across digitized resources, with focus three internationally significant collections field. has been undertaken within “Mapping Manuscript Migrations” (MMM) project since 2017, aimed at aggregating linking disparate datasets relating to history manuscripts. included reconciliation matching data for five main classes entities: Persons, Places,...

10.5617/dhnbpub.11190 article EN Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications 2020-06-01

Linked data technologies are natural fits for building and managing controlled vocabularies authorities, especially in a crowd-sourced environment where integrity can be challenge. This paper considers the role of researchers contributing to health maintenance Schoenberg Database Manuscripts, particularly as it relates its local Name Authority. It will also demonstrate how applying Open Data processes SDBM facilitate symbiotic relationship between user community–the “crowd”– well prepare...

10.1080/19386389.2023.2168120 article EN Journal of Library Metadata 2023-01-25

Cooperative models for digital archives management offer innovative means of utilising resources, skills and knowledge from multiple institutions to support shared online collections. To outline the benefits challenges working within a consortial model, this paper provides three case studies, focusing on distributed governance, metadata quality assurance, resource sharing, financial security, diversity equity. While increased number stakeholders can complicate media repository, strategies...

10.69554/dvjv8176 article EN Journal of digital media management 2022-03-01

Since it was awarded a Round 4 Trans-Atlantic Platform Digging into Data Challenge grant in 2017, the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project has been working to develop and test methodology link disparate datasets from Europe North America with aim of providing large-scale analysis visualizations history provenance medieval Renaissance manuscripts.

10.1353/mns.2021.0004 article EN Manuscript studies 2021-01-01
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