• DocumentCode
    2769762
  • Title

    Markup Meets GIS - Visualizing the "Biographies of Eminent Buddhist Monks\´

  • Author

    Bingenheimer, Marcus ; Hung, Jen-Jou ; Wiles, Simon

  • Author_Institution
    Libr. & Inf. Center, Dharma Drum Buddhist Coll., Taiwan
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    15-17 July 2009
  • Firstpage
    550
  • Lastpage
    554
  • Abstract
    This paper describes one of the projects conducted at the Library and Information Center at Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Taiwan. Tracing the dasiaBiographies of Eminent Buddhist Monkspsila is a project with the aim of visualizing information contained in the collections known as Biographies of Eminent Monks (Gaoseng Zhuan) in new and productive ways. This is achieved by linking texts encoded in TEI markup with authority databases and returning query results as KML.
  • Keywords
    document handling; geographic information systems; Buddhist monks; GIS; KML; TEI markup; Biographies; Geographic Information Systems; Visualization; Biography; Buddhist; GIS; Gaoseng Zhuan; GoogleEarth; KML; TEI; XML;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Visualisation, 2009 13th International Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Barcelona
  • ISSN
    1550-6037
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3733-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IV.2009.91
  • Filename
    5190835