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Multi-perspective Approach for Curating and Exploring the History of Climate Change in Latin America within Digital Newspapers

Genoveva Vargas-Solar¹, José-Luis Zechinelli-Martini², Javier A. Espinosa-Oviedo³ and Luis M. Vilches-Blázquez⁴

1. CNRS, Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, UCBL, LIRIS, UMR5205, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
   genoveva.vargas-solar@cnrs.fr
2. Fundación Universidad de las Américas Puebla, 72820 San Andrés Cholula, Mexico
   joseluis.zechinelli@udlap.mx
3. Univ Lyon, CPE Lyon, LIRIS, UMR5205, F-69616 Villeurbanne, France
   javier.espinosa@cpe.fr
4. Centro de Investigación en Computación, IPN, 07738 Mexico City, Mexico
   lmvilches@cic.ipn.mx

Abstract

This paper introduces a multi-perspective approach to deal with curation and exploration issues in historical newspapers. It has been implemented in the platform LACLICHEV (Latin American Climate Change Evolution platform). Exploring the history of climate change through digitalized newspapers published around two centuries ago introduces four challenges: (1) curating content for tracking entries describing meteorological events; (2) processing (digging into) colloquial language (and its geographic variations 5 ) for extracting meteorological events; (3) analyzing newspapers to discover meteorological patterns possibly associated with climate change; (4) designing tools for exploring the extracted content. LACLICHEV provides tools for curating, exploring, and analyzing historical newspaper articles, their description and location, and the vocabularies used for referring to meteorological events. This platform makes it possible to understand and identify possible patterns and models that can build an empirical and social view of the history of climate change in the Latin American region.

Key words

data curation, metadata extraction, data collections exploration, data analytics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS220110008V

Publication information

Volume 20, Issue 3 (June 2023)
Year of Publication: 2023
ISSN: 2406-1018 (Online)
Publisher: ComSIS Consortium

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Vargas-Solar, G., Zechinelli-Martini, J., Espinosa-Oviedo, J. A., Vilches-Blázquez, L. M.: Multi-perspective Approach for Curating and Exploring the History of Climate Change in Latin America within Digital Newspapers. Computer Science and Information Systems, Vol. 20, No. 3, 1179–1205. (2023), https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS220110008V