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==Full project title:== | ==Full project title:== | ||
Geographic Annotation Platform (GAP): Discovering and visualizing geographical entities in large text corpora | |||
* Elton Barker, The Open University | ==Description== | ||
* Eric C. Kansa, University of California-Berkeley | |||
* Leif Isaksen, University of Southampton | [http://googleancientplaces.wordpress.com/ GAP] addresses two primary concerns related to online resources: discovery and usability, using the ancient world as a test case. No one person is going to able to find all the ancient places referenced in large text corpora (like the one million plus Google Books corpus): for that you need a helping hand. GAP is developing a search engine (based on the Edinburgh Geoparser), which automatically finds (“geotags”) references to ancient places in a text and then links (“georesolves”) them to a gazetteer. In order to visualize the results in meaningful ways, GAP uses a single-screen application called [http://gap.alexandriaarchive.org/gapvis/index.html#index GapVis] with various components to help the reader navigate through a text geospatially. | ||
==The Team== | |||
* Elton Barker, Classical Studies, The Open University | |||
* Eric C. Kansa, School of Information, University of California-Berkeley | |||
* Leif Isaksen, Archaeological Computing, University of Southampton | |||
* Kate Byrne, Institute of Informatics, Edinburgh | * Kate Byrne, Institute of Informatics, Edinburgh | ||
* Nick Rabinowitz | * Nick Rabinowitz | ||
==Publications== | |||
2011: ‘GAP: a neogeo approach to classical resources’, in Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks, ''Leonardo'' (MIT-Press) Vol. 43, No. 3, E-ISSN 1530-9282 | |||
==In the Press== | |||
* http://www.southampton.ac.uk/archaeology/news/acrgnews_22_07_2010_isaksen.shtml | * http://www.southampton.ac.uk/archaeology/news/acrgnews_22_07_2010_isaksen.shtml | ||
* http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/our-commitment-to-digital-humanities.html | * http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/our-commitment-to-digital-humanities.html | ||
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Revision as of 11:54, 10 July 2012
Full project title:
Geographic Annotation Platform (GAP): Discovering and visualizing geographical entities in large text corpora
Description
GAP addresses two primary concerns related to online resources: discovery and usability, using the ancient world as a test case. No one person is going to able to find all the ancient places referenced in large text corpora (like the one million plus Google Books corpus): for that you need a helping hand. GAP is developing a search engine (based on the Edinburgh Geoparser), which automatically finds (“geotags”) references to ancient places in a text and then links (“georesolves”) them to a gazetteer. In order to visualize the results in meaningful ways, GAP uses a single-screen application called GapVis with various components to help the reader navigate through a text geospatially.
The Team
- Elton Barker, Classical Studies, The Open University
- Eric C. Kansa, School of Information, University of California-Berkeley
- Leif Isaksen, Archaeological Computing, University of Southampton
- Kate Byrne, Institute of Informatics, Edinburgh
- Nick Rabinowitz
Publications
2011: ‘GAP: a neogeo approach to classical resources’, in Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks, Leonardo (MIT-Press) Vol. 43, No. 3, E-ISSN 1530-9282