MapAffil: A Bibliographic Tool for Mapping Author Affiliation Strings to Cities and Their Geocodes Worldwide

Reports on a search interface called MapAffil developed at the University of Illinois in which the longitude and latitude of the geographical city-center is displayed when a city is identified in a free-form text string representing an author affiliation in a bibliographic record. Source: National L...

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Published inD-Lib magazine Vol. 21; no. 11/12; p. 1
Main Author Torvik, Vetle I.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Corporation for National Research Initiatives 01.11.2015
Subjects
Analysis
Authors and readers
Bibliographical citations
Bibliometrics
Cities
Colleges & universities
Data processing
Geographical location codes
Scholarly publishing
United States > US
Russia
MEDLINE
Geoparsing
Toponym Extraction
Toponym Resolution
Geocoding
Bibliographic Databases
Geographic Indexing
Place Name Ambiguity
PubMed
Author Affiliations
Digital Libraries
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Summary:Reports on a search interface called MapAffil developed at the University of Illinois in which the longitude and latitude of the geographical city-center is displayed when a city is identified in a free-form text string representing an author affiliation in a bibliographic record. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
Bibliography:Includes illustrations, portrait, references, tables
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ISSN:1082-9873
1082-9873
DOI:10.1045/november2015-torvik