GAP

Available

 * http://googleancientplaces.wordpress.com/

Team

 * Elton Barker, Classical Studies, The Open University
 * Eric C. Kansa, School of Information, University of California-Berkeley
 * Leif Isaksen, Archaeology, University of Southampton
 * Kate Byrne, Institute of Informatics, Edinburgh
 * Nick Rabinowitz

Description
GAP (the Geographic Annotation Platform for discovering and visualizing geographical entities in large text corpora) 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.

GAP is funded by a Google Digital Humanities Research Grant (2010, 2012)

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/