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

• Published in: D-Lib magazine Vol. 21; no. 11/12; p. 1
• Main Author: Torvik, Vetle I.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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

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...