Paper Reading#2: JigsawMap: Connecting the Past to the Future by Mapping Historical Textual Cadasters

Intro:
   Title -- JigsawMap: Connecting the Past to the Future by Mapping Historical Textual Cadasters
   Reference Information -- Korea
   Author Bios--Current:Associate Consultant at Exaserv
   Past:Graduate TA (Database) at Georgia Institute of Technology

•    Undergraduate Lab TA/Grading TA (Physics) at Georgia Institute of Technology

•    Research Assistant Intern at Yeungnam University Medical Center

Summary: JigsawMap is a text visualization tool for making historical textual cadasters. People use great amount of time for making pre-modern textual cadasters to modern textual cadasters. This is mainly because historians need to analys great amount of data and draw them on a paper. however, this tool use visualization that will able anyone to do an expert's job.

Related Work

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The work I read is about novel and they did talk about related work. They mention about their work is based on previous research on different fields. The related work is about at the same level of the paper I read about. The related works seem to not have a device that is well developed as I read in the paper. 

Evaluation: They ask a student that has no experience in this kind of work before to participate, and a professor that has fully experience on it. The student will use the Jigsaw Map, and the professor used his hand drawn map to do everything by his own hand. The outcome is the student did in a much faster way than the professor. The student uses only two weeks to completed the task, and the professor use more than a month. They use qualitative measures and biased measures. The method they used is systemic since it did ask people that are familiar to this kind of work to participate and people that are not. It works pretty well based on their prediction. 

Discussion: I think this work contributes much to the historians. This will decrease the amount of time they work for mapping. Therefore, the historians can use other time to investigate other more important things.