XML-GIS Integration Project

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Objectives

The projects aims at the implementation of interfaces between the ​https://itgroup.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de:8080/tracs/mpdl-project-software XML-project and the ​http://culhis.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/doku.php/gis/gis_main GIS-project.

These interfaces will enable the user to transfer between both tools.

Usage Scenarios

• Linking of a place name in the full-text display to a map with the marked location
  • the full-text display displays a link for a place name
  • the link goes to a map display with the place
• Integration of links to digital text documents in spatial datasets as reference
  • klick on a place on a map and get a list of links to text pages with occurences
• Linking of prepared digital maps to specific documents as interactive illustration (travelroutes etc.)
• Display of digital standard maps for location names
  • a URL for a location name that generates a standard map(?) for this location
• ...

Technical Concepts

• System should be based on:
  • open source software,
  • public free accessable databases
  • interfaces according to ​http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards OpenGIS and ​http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer REST
• Creation and saving of digital maps with permanent links
  • Saving map as static image to image-server
  • Saving dynamic map as kml, access via RESTful service
  • Saving dynamic map as querie-set for dataset selection and rule-set for map creation, access via RESTful service
• Definition of spatial attributes for metadata of and text objects (like location names) within digital documents
  • Spatial attributes within text documents:

          <dcterms:spatial xsi:type="dcterms:Point">Berlin</dcterms:spatial>
          <dcterms:spatial xsi:type="dcterms:Box">Germany</dcterms:spatial>
          <dcterms:temporal xsi:type="dcterms:Period">1900-1950</dcterms:temporal>
          Im <time standard="1923-01">Januar 1923</time> lief Anton nach <place standard="Berlin" type="city" xlink:href="link zur Datenbank">Berlijn</place>.

• A relevant version of the "echo-gis" modul:
  

​https://itgroup.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de:8080/tracs/mpdl-project-content/browser/trunk/schema/echo/echo-gis.rnc

• XML-chunks are also in Wolfgangs [[​https://itgroup.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de:8080/tracs/mpdl-

project/content/browser/trunk/schema/xml-test-files|Test-XML-File]]

See the metadata and the "Im Januar 1923"-sentence at the end.

• Automated recognition of location names within text documents with manual verification
  • Look-up with terms from local spatial database
  • Look-up in public georeferencing-service like GoogleMaps etc.
  • Look-up in spatial gazateer service from Peter Bol
• Manual localization (spatial referenciation) of text objects in digital maps
• ...