Gap: A NeoGeo Approach to Classical Resources

• Published in: Leonardo (Oxford) Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 82 - 83
• Main Authors: Isaksen, Leif, Barker, Elton, Kansa, Eric C., Byrne, Kate
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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

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...