What is SCALE?
What's in a name? Digital libraries contain a vast array of names, such as proper names and geographic names. The SCALE project will develop tools within the NSDL that will automatically recognize names from structured data, match them against an authorized list of names, and automatically link them from a document to supplementary information, such as glossaries and thesauri. These services will help students, professionals outside a particular discipline, and the interested public read documents full of unfamiliar technical terms and concepts. These services can be of particular help to undergraduates as they shift from textbooks to scientific literature.
This project is collaboration among two groups at Tufts University: the Digital Collections and Archives and the Perseus Project; and two groups at Johns Hopkins University: the Digital Knowledge Center and the National Virtual Observatory (NVO) of the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
