Paper Info
Title
Worldwide accessibility to Yizkor books
Abstract
Yizkor Books contain firsthand accounts of events that occurred before, during, and after the Holocaust. These books were published with parts in thirteen languages, across six continents, spanning a period of more than 60 years and are an important resource for research of Eastern European Jewish communities, Holocaust studies, and genealogical investigations. Numerous Yizkor Book collections span the globe. One of the largest collections of Yizkor Books is housed within the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Due to their rare and often fragile conditions, the original Yizkor Books are vastly underutilized. Ongoing efforts to digitize and reprint Yizkor Books increases the availability of the books, however, the capability to search information about their content is nonexistent. We established a centralized index for Yizkor Books and developed a detailed search interface accessible worldwide, capable of efficiently querying the data. Our interface offers unique features and provides novel approaches to foreign name and location search. Furthermore, we describe and demonstrate a rule set to assist searches based on inaccurate terms. This system is currently under the auspices of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2009
NGITS
foreign name,yizkor book,detailed search interface,numerous yizkor book collection,worldwide accessibility,eastern european jewish community,yizkor books,location search,centralized index,united states holocaust memorial,original yizkor books,firsthand account,indexation
Field
DocType
Volume
Data mining,Globe,Judaism,World Wide Web,Reprint,Holocaust studies,Computer science,The Holocaust,Search interface
Conference
5831
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0302-9743
3-642-04940-0
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rebecca Cathey1265.08
Jason J. Soo262.04
Ophir Frieder33300419.55
Michlean Amir400.34
Gideon Frieder514654.70