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Geographic Annotation Platform | GAP: The Geographic Annotation Platform for discovering and visualizing geographical entities in large text corpora | ||
* GAP is funded by a Google Digital Humanities Research Grant (2010, 2012) | |||
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==In the Press== | ==In the Press== | ||
* http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/our-commitment-to-digital-humanities.html | * http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/our-commitment-to-digital-humanities.html | ||
* http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p008qlmv | |||
* http://historyoftheancientworld.com/2010/07/google-funds-online-project-on-ancient-texts/ | |||
* http://www.archaeologydaily.com/news/201007224561/Google-funding-for-discovery-of-ancient-texts-online.html | |||
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/pda/2010/jul/14/google-books-funding-research | |||
* http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-84430237.html | |||
* http://www.heritagedaily.com/2012/02/google-funds-project-investigating-the-geography-of-the-ancient-world/ | |||
* http://www.neoteo.com/google-ancient-places-interfaz-visual-de-la-antigu | |||
* http://gislounge.com/google-ancient-places-exploring-the-geography-of-ancient-places-in-text/ | |||
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Revision as of 16:05, 10 July 2012
Title
GAP: The Geographic Annotation Platform for discovering and visualizing geographical entities in large text corpora
- GAP is funded by a Google Digital Humanities Research Grant (2010, 2012)
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
In the Press
- http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/our-commitment-to-digital-humanities.html
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p008qlmv
- http://historyoftheancientworld.com/2010/07/google-funds-online-project-on-ancient-texts/
- http://www.archaeologydaily.com/news/201007224561/Google-funding-for-discovery-of-ancient-texts-online.html
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/pda/2010/jul/14/google-books-funding-research
- http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-84430237.html
- http://www.heritagedaily.com/2012/02/google-funds-project-investigating-the-geography-of-the-ancient-world/
- http://www.neoteo.com/google-ancient-places-interfaz-visual-de-la-antigu
- http://gislounge.com/google-ancient-places-exploring-the-geography-of-ancient-places-in-text/