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Appendix to Andrea Bravo Balado, Victor de Boer, and Guus Schreiber. Linking historical ship records to a newspaper archive. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Social Informatics (workshops)"
No full text<p>This online appendix to the paper “Andrea Bravo Balado, Victor de Boer, and Guus Schreiber. Linking historical ship records to a newspaper archive. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Social Informatics (workshops)” contains nine items. First, in Appendix A we show a sample of a common ship instance within the newspaper dataset. In Appendix B, we present the resulting confusion matrices from our text classification experiments and in Appendix C, a simple visualisation of the labeled instances. Furthermore, in Appendix D, E and F we present the surveys used for evaluation. Finally, a sample of the training set used and the stop words list used for text classification are shown in Appendix H and I, respectively</p
The Web, Speech Technologies and Rural Development in West Africa An ICT4D Approach
Full text linkAkkermans, J.M. [Promotor]Boer, V. de [Copromotor
Nichesourcing for Improving Access to Linked Cultural Heritage Datasets
Full text linkSchreiber, A.T. [Promotor]Aroyo, L.M. [Promotor]Boer, V. de [Copromotor
Linking African Traditional Medicine Knowledge
No full textThis is an updated version of the paper published at Linking African Traditional Medicine Knowledge A. Gossa Lo, Victor de Boer, Stefan Schlobach in "Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Health Care and Life Sciences". Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Health Care and Life Sciences (SWAT4LS 2017) Rome, Italy, December 4-7, 2017.This updated version has an extended author list an acknowledgements. African Traditional Medicine (ATM) is widely used in Africa as the first-line of treatment thanks to its accessibility and affordability. However, the lack of formalization of this knowledge can lead to safety issues and malpractice. This paper investigates a possible contribution of the Semantic Web in realizing the formalization and integration of ATM with data on conventional medicine (CM). As a proof of concept we convert various ATM datasets and link them to CM data. This results in a Linked ATM knowledge graph. We finally give some examples with some interesting SPARQL queries and insightful results.
Acknowledgements. This work was supported by ANR ( Grant nANR-16-MRSE-0019-01), IDEX University of Bordeaux and W4RA (http://w4ra.org). We thank Hospital Traditional Keur Massar, Djibril Ba and Genevi`eve Baumann.
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Knowledge management practices for development - Lessons from post-earthquake Nepal. A case-study on using technology to facilitate inclusive data gathering
Full text linkResponding effectively and appropriately to large scale natural disaster requires information-driven coordinated action between many different stakeholders. Evidence from one NGO engaged in reconstruction work after the 2015 Nepal earthquake sets out some of the knowledge management practice issues faced by an organization performing this work in a challenging geographical environment with low-connectivity. Key issues are identified and a data gathering tool that encourages data-driven bottom-up development practices is presented
Evaluation Data for IJDL Experiments
No full textTwo excel sheets presenting the raw evaluations and subsequent data analysis for two term extraction experiments as reported in the paper "Evaluating Unsupervised Thesaurus-based Labeling of Audiovisual Content in an Archive Production Environment" by de Boer et al. to appear in IJDL experiment1_data.xslx contains the raw evaluations and subsequent evaluations for the experiment described in Section 4 of that paper. This includes the Pearson correlation coefficient calculations. experiment2_data.xslx contains the raw evaluations and subsequent evaluations for the experiment described in Section 5 of that paper.</div
Gone with the shining things
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.The lure of gold in the great reefs of Johannesburg near the end of the 19th century not only attracted the famous mining barons such as Cecil John Rhodes, Alfred Beit and Barney Barnato: working men also came from far and wide to feed their families with their labour. Among them was my great-grandfather, the miner from the Isle of Man, William Cogeen. He arrived via the tin mines of Cornwall and the silver mines of Colorado, and was among those Uitlanders who flocked in those early days to the Transvaal as skilled artisans - wheelwrights, farriers, bricklayers and, especially, experienced hard-rock miners. It was their labour, as well as of black tribesmen from all over southern Africa, that laid the financial foundation for what became the rich city of Johannesburg. It was also their influx that was the excuse that precipitated the Anglo-Boer War. His wife and daughters joined him in what was still a rough boom town, and they stayed on, until forced to flee as refugees from Johannesburg at the start of the war in 1899. Intrigued by the stories my mother and grandmother told me as a child, I began to research my family’s history and travelled to the Isle of Man, Cornwall and Colorado to trace their origins - and my own. This is the remarkable story of what happened to an ordinary working-class family who lived in extraordinary times, and my journey in their footsteps
Fabricação e caracterização das ligas Ni20 Zn80 e CO20 Zn80 por mechanical allloying
Full text linkDissertação (Mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Físicas e Matemáticas
Kasadaka: a Voice Service Development Platform to Bridge the Web's Digital Divide
Full text linkThe World Wide Web is a crucial open public space for knowledge sharing, content creation and application service provisioning for billions on this planet. Although it has a global reach, still more than three billion people do not have access to the Web, the major ity of whom live in the Global South, often in rural regions, under low-resource conditions and with poor infrastructure. However the need for knowledge sharing, content creation and application service provisioning is no less on the other side of this Digital Di vide. In this paper we describe the Kasadaka platform that supports easy creation of local-content and voice-based information services targeted at currently ‘unconnected’ populations and matching the associated resource and infrastructural requirements. The Kasadaka platform and especially its Voice Service Development Kit supports the formation of an ecosystem of decentralized voice-based infor mation services that serve local populations and communities. This is, in fact, very much analogous to the services and functionalities offered by the Web, but in regions where Internet and Web are absent and will continue to be for the foreseeable future
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