Gap: A NeoGeo Approach to Classical Resources

Google Ancient Places (GAP) is a Google Digital Humanities Award recipient that will mine the Google Books corpus for classical material that has a strong geographic and historical basis. GAP will allow scholars, students, and enthusiasts world-wide to query the Google Books corpus to ask for books...

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Published inLeonardo (Oxford) Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 82 - 83
Main Authors Isaksen, Leif, Barker, Elton, Kansa, Eric C., Byrne, Kate
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 55 Hayward St., Cambridge, MA 02142-1315, USA MIT Press 01.02.2012
The MIT Press
Subjects
Digital humanities
Digital libraries
Gazetteers
Geodetic position
Geography
Metadata
Narratives
Place names
Search engines
Special Section of Leonardo Transactions: Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks
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Summary:Google Ancient Places (GAP) is a Google Digital Humanities Award recipient that will mine the Google Books corpus for classical material that has a strong geographic and historical basis. GAP will allow scholars, students, and enthusiasts world-wide to query the Google Books corpus to ask for books related to a geographic location or to ask for the locations referred to in a classical text. The traditional difficulty of identifying place names will be overcome by using a combination of URI-based gazetteers and an identification algorithm that associates the linear clustering of places within narrative texts with the geographic clustering of locations in the real world.
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ISSN:0024-094X
1530-9282
DOI:10.1162/LEON_a_00343