@inbook {larson_connecting_2011,
	title = {Connecting Archival Collections: The Social Networks and Archival Context Project},
	booktitle = {Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries},
	series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
	number = {6966},
	year = {2011},
	note = {00006},
	pages = {3{\textendash}14},
	publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
	organization = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
	abstract = {This paper describes the Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) project, a database, which {\textquotedblleft}merges information from each instance of an individual name found in the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) resources, along with variant names, biographical notes, and their topical descriptions. {\textquotedblleft} The database merges information from different sources to offer a rich and varied insight into the social-historical context of the name provided in the search query. In this article, Ray Larson and Krishna Janakiraman address the processes involved in and issues that arise from deriving information from the database, such as name-matching and merging information from different sources. They also describe the SNAC prototype interface for public use. The SNAC project is still undergoing development, where the research results are being used to improve the database. },
	keywords = {Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Document Preparation and Text Processing, Information Storage and Retrieval, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Multimedia Information Systems, {DATABASE} management},
	isbn = {978-3-642-24468-1, 978-3-642-24469-8},
	url = {http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-24469-8_3},
	author = {Larson, Ray R. and Janakiraman, Krishna},
	editor = {Gradmann, Stefan and Borri, Francesca and Meghini, Carlo and Schuldt, Heiko}
}