Proposal of Spatiotemporal Data Extraction and Visualization System based on Wikipedia for Application to Earth Science

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Proposal of Spatiotemporal Data Extraction and Visualization System based on Wikipedia for Application to Earth Science - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2010, written by Akihiro Okamoto, Shohei Yokoyama, Naoki Fukuta and Hiroshi Ishikawa.

Overview

The evolution of information technologies has simplified the handling of huge amounts of earth science data. However, since various problems exist before these data can be exploited well, new uses are required. One example is combining earth science data with spatiotemporal data on the Web. In research, authors focus on Wikipedia, which is a Web encyclopedia that has many constructional features. Authors report system that extracts spatiotemporal data on Wikipedia and visualizes them.