Two faculty members from our department, Dr.Songphan Choemprayong and Dr.Sorakom Dissamarn, presented their works at the 20th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2018). The conference was hosted by the University of Waikato, New Zealand from November 19 – 22, 2018.

Co-authored with faculty members and a researcher from the Department of Linguistics and the Department of Thai, Chulalongkorn University, Dr.Choemprayong gave a presentation entitled “Development of Content-Based Metadata Scheme of Classical Poetry in Thai National Historical Corpus” reporting an effort to develop a structural metadata to describe Thai classical poetry. The abstract of the paper is below.

This paper addresses a conceptual framework and an application of a content-based metadata scheme of classical poetry currently deployed in the Thai National Historical Corpus (TNHC). The corpus aims to collect texts representing the Thai language from different historical periods. Applying a metadata modeling approach, the variation of classical Thai poetry is analyzed in terms of components in every verse form. The compositions of wak, baat, stanza, paragraph, and chapter are identified as main elements for the conceptual framework. For theatrical works, essential elements including <sound> and <stage> tags were also implemented. TNHC selectively applied certain standard TEI encoding elements, in XML format, to describe the content structure of the poetry. This is an early attempt to develop a metadata scheme for classical Thai poetry. There are still a number of opportunities to improve the discovery and interoperability of the collection as well as to enhance the data entry process, data management, and retrieval performance of the corpus.

Dr.Choemprayong’s full paper is now available at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04257-8_15.

Dr.Dissamarn, co-authored with Dr.Somsak Sriborisutsakul and Dr.Saowapha Limwichitr, presented a poster on “A Visual Content Analysis of Thai Government’s Census Infographics” depicting how infographics are presented on data-oriented Thai government agencies. Below is the abstract of their study.

This paper reports an approach to visual content analysis and findings of the initial phase of developing the coding sheet for analyzing government infographics in Thailand. It sought to examine story topics and visual displays appeared in census infographics at the outset. All 108 infographics from the National Statistical Office (NSO) website were chosen to be studied. There were two expert coders responsible for a pilot coding. The first expert was designated to analyze the contents, and another coder was assigned to identify narrative visualization used in the census infographics. Overall, the preliminary findings reveal that the NSO focused on the creation of static infographics in which their contents, together with the static visuals, represented census data in a single page. Although the NSO static infographics were the most common format found for its visual communication, further studies are required to examine different kinds of infographics generated by other Thai government agencies dealing with varied information other than census data.

Dr.Dissamarn’s paper can be accessed at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04257-8_27.

The theme of ICADL 2018 is Maturity and Innovation in Digital Libraries. The conference brought researchers, educators, and scholars who are developing digital libraries from around the world, not just only from Asia-Pacific region, to exchange ideas and their works. The next ICADL conference will be in Malaysia hosted by the Universiti Teknologi MARA.

LibSci@Chula at ICADL 2018