Computational Curation Of A Digitized Record Series Of Wwii Japanese-American Internment

This paper describes the linguistic analysis of index note cards from record series of the World War II Japanese-American Internment Camps that are in the custody of the National Archives. It also describes the use of GATE Developer, and an extension of ANNIE, a GATE plugin, in linguistic processing of information specific to index note cards in order to extract metadata supporting access and archival decisions regarding record release and withdrawal. The content of the index cards will be interpreted as OWL/RDF statements. Those statements will be stored in a graph database and used with objects such as digital maps and photos to produce an interactive user interface to exhibit events at relocation centers.