GAP: a neogeo approach to classical resources

Isaksen, Leif; Barker, Elton; Kansa, Eric C. and Byrne, Kate (2012). GAP: a neogeo approach to classical resources. Leonardo, 45(1) pp. 82–83.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_00343

Abstract

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. We will overcome the traditional difficulty of identifying place names 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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