The apollo archive explorer

Abstract

A system for exploring the rich recorded legacy of the Apollo missions to the Moon, using the event structure of each mission as an organizing principle, will be demonstrated. A scalable implementation is achieved by automating temporal, spatial, and topical content alignment across diverse media. Multiple access points are supported, including event-based access through the flight plan, time-based access using event timelines, and contentbased access using information retrieval techniques.

LifeLogging: Personal Big Data

“…There are user generated video collections from TRECVid and other evaluation forums which can be used to evaluate individual components of the lifelog collections. There are also digital photo collections, Bolettieri et al (2009), and even email collections, Klimt and Yang (2004), or spoken conversation collections, such as the Apollo collection of six months of speech transcripts and annotations from the Apollo programme, as described in Oard and Malionek (2013). By employing such collections, aspects of lifelog retrieval can be evaluated, but without a holistic lifelog test collection or dataset, this is still only addressing part of the challenge.…”

Improving Accessibility of Archived Raster Dictionaries of Complex Script Languages

“…There have been a lot of work in preserving books in the form of scanned images, digitizing scanned pages using OCR engines and crowdsourcing, analyzing digital data, and building archive explorers [21,6,17,37,7,64,44,61,60]. While OCR engines offer a scalable mechanism to digitize scanned images, they have limited accuracy or no support for many of the world's popular languages, hence automating digitization work-flow [52] is not feasible.…”

Linking transcribed conversational speech

“…We have integrated a display of linked QA pairs into our existing mission reconstruction system for Apollo missions [9]. This system presents a time-synchronized replay of recorded audio, mission transcripts (for both radio transmissions and recordings made aboard the spacecraft), video, photographs, maps, event timelines, and flight plans; the goals is to help the user to see events from multiple perspectives as they unfolded at the time.…”