I. Title, Abstract and Bio for APEC Conference (Digital Archive)

A. Title: Spatiotemporal Infrastructure for Semantic Network in Digital Archives

B. Abstract

Space and time are essential elements for almost all the information of world phenomena. Disciplinary ontology constitutes a system of (well-defined breadth and depth coverage) domain knowledge. Human are inherent of the capability for acquisition and perception of knowledge about space, wherever they are from direct experience or from secondary environmental experience. Temporal Characteristics is always embedded and could not be neglected. As the highest common factors, space and time weave the network of interactions among disciplinary. By means of feature identification, comparison, interpretation, and further integration with other related resources, discovery of valid, novel, useful, and understandable pattern in digital archives is more feasible.

A spatiotemporal infrastructure is composed of a temporal series of (georeferenced) geospatial materials, a digital gazetteer system, and a framework for the application of and integration base upon the previous basics. Such infrastructure is constructing under the National Digital Archive Project (NDAP) and other related projects in Taiwan. Persistent cataloging, classification, and segmentation of digital objects is the ground for finding patterns, models, and trends of large volume data, and serve as the basics of NDAP for further exploration of knowledge from the archives.

Intersection of spatiotemporal coordinates and lingual coordinate constitutes a good framework both for knowledge extraction and interoperability for digital resources. Development of a content structure made by space-time-language coordinates for NDAP is also initiated.

C. Bio

Eric Yen is the leader of Computer System Management Team and GIScience Team in Computing Centre, Academia Sinica.