Systems and methods for automatically identifying and linking names in digital resources

Abstract

The present invention provides systems and methods for automatically identifying name-like-strings in digital resources, matching these name-like-string against a set of names held in an expertly curated database, and for those name-like-strings found in said database, enhancing the content by associating additional matter with the name, wherein said matter includes information about the names that is held within said database and pointers to other digital resources which include the same name and it synonyms.

1 . A method for adding tags to a first digital resource, the method comprising:
 creating a second digital resource which comprises the content of the first digital resource;   finding within said second digital resource at least one occurrence of a name-like-string, wherein   said name-like-string is contained within a database,   said database relates said name-like-string to other name-like-strings by means of a taxonomic structure based on rules of nomenclature, and   said database is expertly curated;   obtaining from said database for said name-like-string a globally unique identifier associated with said string; and   inserting a tag with said identifier into said second digital resource.   
     
     
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