Littar was the second-prize winning entry in an app competition. It implemented a system for visualizing places mentioned in individual literary works. Wikidata acted as the backend for the system. Here I describe the Littar system and also some of the issues I encountered while developing the system: How locations and literature can be related, what types of location-literature relations are possible within Wikidata, what limitations there are and what questions we may ask once we have enough data in Wikidata.
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%1 IMM2016-06935
%A Nielsen, F. \AA.
%C Building 321, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby
%D 2016
%I Department of Applied Mathmatics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark
%K application wikidata
%T Literature, geolocation and Wikidata (poster)
%U http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/pubdb/p.php?6935
%X Littar was the second-prize winning entry in an app competition. It implemented a system for visualizing places mentioned in individual literary works. Wikidata acted as the backend for the system. Here I describe the Littar system and also some of the issues I encountered while developing the system: How locations and literature can be related, what types of location-literature relations are possible within Wikidata, what limitations there are and what questions we may ask once we have enough data in Wikidata.
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abstract = {Littar was the second-prize winning entry in an app competition. It implemented a system for visualizing places mentioned in individual literary works. Wikidata acted as the backend for the system. Here I describe the Littar system and also some of the issues I encountered while developing the system: How locations and literature can be related, what types of location-literature relations are possible within Wikidata, what limitations there are and what questions we may ask once we have enough data in Wikidata.},
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keywords = {application wikidata},
month = may,
publisher = {Department of Applied Mathmatics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark},
timestamp = {2016-05-31T10:39:28.000+0200},
title = {Literature, geolocation and Wikidata (poster)},
url = {http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/pubdb/p.php?6935},
year = 2016
}