FedBook

In humanities research, scholars study written artefacts such as manuscripts to analyse aspects like language, content, and provenance. Projects such as the UWA project RFE09 "Bookbindings as Instruments of Classification" , which examined Egyptian bookbindings as tools of classification, and Beta maṣāḥǝft at the Hiob Ludolf Centre, which documents Ethiopian and Eritrean manuscripts, illustrate this diversity of approaches. However, due to limited quantitative data, some research questions cannot be verified precisely. Our system enriches research data from RFE09 with other data by linking such projects through a federated database system. This approach allows missing variables, such as dimensions or material details, to be supplemented, improving research accuracy.

Open federated bookbinding information system here.

Data can be found here.

Publication

Sylvia Melzer, Hagen Peukert, Eliana Dal Sasso, Charles Li, Thomas Asselborn, Ralf Möller
Federated Information Retrieval in Cross-Domain Information Systems
Proceedings of the Workshop on Humanities-Centred Artificial Intelligence (CHAI 2023): 52-67, 16 S., Vol. 3580, CEUR-WS.org (CEUR Workshop Proceedings)
Final published version