City-Stories: Combining Entity Linking, Multimedia Retrieval, and Crowdsourcing to Make Historical Data Accessible

Laura Rettig, Shaban Shabani, Loris Sauter, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Maria Sokhn, Heiko Schuldt

Abstract: Digitized historical image collections as provided by individuals or memory institutions often suffer from limited or a complete lack of metadata In this paper, we present the City-Stories system that combines entity linking, multimedia retrieval, and crowdsourcing to make historical images searchable even across collections.