Digital Classicist & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2011
Friday July 15th at 16:30
Court Room, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU
Elton Barker (Open University) & Leif Isaksen (Southampton)
Mine the GAP: Finding ancient places in the Google Books corpus
ALL WELCOME
Due to Google’s digitization programme, the information now available is
unprecedented: but what exactly is there, and how can it be used? The
Google Ancient Places (GAP) project investigates a means of facilitating
the discovery of data that is of interest to scholars working on the
ancient world, and experiments with ways of making use of the results.
This paper sets out the work on which GAP is based, discusses our
approach to finding ancient places in books, and showcases some examples
of use, in particular the visualization of places in GoogleMaps
alongside the actual text.
The seminar will be followed by wine and refreshments.
For more information please contact [log in to unmask],
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at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2011.html
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Dr Gabriel BODARD
(Research Associate in Digital Epigraphy)
Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London WC2B 5RL
Email: [log in to unmask]
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388
Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/
http://www.currentepigraphy.org/
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