Parsing
project: William Godwin's Diary
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The project provides a digital edition of the diary of William Godwin (1756-1836). Godwin’s diary consists of 32 octavo notebooks. The first entry is for 6 April 1788 and the final entry is for 26 March 1836, shortly before he died. The diary is a resource of immense importance to researchers of history, politics, literature, and women’s studies. [read more]
Tags: 2d Scanning and photography Cataloguing and indexing Coding and standardisation Collating Content analysis Curation Data mining Documentation General project management General website development Graphical interaction (asynchronous) Indexing Interface design Iterative design Parsing preservation Prototyping Resource sharing Risk management Searching and querying Security planning Server scripting System quality assurance and code testing Text encoding - descriptive Text encoding - presentational Text encoding - referential text mining Text recognition Textual interaction (asynchronous) Use of existing digital data Version control Visualisation
project: An electronic corpus of 15th century Castilian cancionero manuscripts; towards completion of the Dutton project
Grant Holder: Professor Dorothy Severin
When Brian Dutton died prematurely in his 60th year (1994), he had completed his magnum opus, the seven-volume El cancionero castellano del siglo XV, in book format (Salamanca: Universidad, 1990-91), but although he had used electronic preparation of texts, he was unable to fulfil the dream of conversion to electronic usage. We can now present the online website version of the Dutton project of courtly verse, alongside our own project of the longer moralistic, didactic and religious Castilian verse of the fifteenth century. [read more]
Tags: Cataloguing and indexing Coding and standardisation Collating Documentation General project management General website development Indexing Interface design Iterative design Manual input and transcription Parsing Prototyping Searching and querying Server scripting Stemmatics Text encoding - descriptive Text encoding - presentational Text encoding - referential Usability analysis Use of existing digital data Version control Visualisation Web browser scripting
project: Medieval Warfare on the Grid: The Case of Manzikert
Grant Holder: Professor Vince Gaffney
The Medieval Warfare on the Grid project (MWGrid) employs e-science methods and tools to support historical research into logistics of medieval war. The battle of Manzikert (modern Malazgirt, Turkey) in 1071, between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuk Turks, is the subject of this investigation. This key event, which paved the way for Turkish settlement in eastern Anatolia, has been previously studied through comparative historical analysis. However, due to limited sources and the lack of comprehensive analytical methods, its logistics remain a subject of speculation. [read more]
Tags: 3d modelling - vector archaeology Coding and standardisation Collaborative publishing Collating Content analysis Data mining Data modelling Desktop publishing and pre-press Documentation Geophysical survey Graphical interaction (synchronous) Graphical rendering Indexing Interface design Iterative design moving image MPEG-7 Parsing Prototyping Resource sharing Searching and querying Spatial Spatial data analysis Statistical analysis Streaming media System quality assurance and code testing text Textual interaction (asynchronous) Textual interaction (synchronous) Version control Video-based interaction (asynchronous) Virtual world modelling Visualisation
project: Glasgow Emblem Digitisation Project
Grant Holder: Professor Alison Adams
The site has been developed, with generous funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council under the Resource Enhancement Scheme, by a team led by Post-Doctoral Research Assistant Jonathan Spangler, and Project Director Alison Adams. All but two of the emblem books digitised are from the Stirling Maxwell Collection in Glasgow University Library. The Bodleian Library and the Bibliothèque Mazarine have generously made material available to enable us to present the complete corpus. The Project is undertaken within the OpenEmblem initiative. [read more]
Tags: 2d graphic design 2d modelling - raster 2d scanning 2d Scanning and photography Accessibility analysis Cataloguing and indexing Coding and standardisation Collating Collocating Content analysis Content-based image retrieval Data mining Documentation history Indexing Interface design Iterative design Parsing preservation Record linkages Resource sharing Risk management Searching and querying Server scripting System quality assurance and code testing text Text encoding - descriptive Text encoding - presentational Text encoding - referential Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Textual interaction (asynchronous) Usability analysis Version control
project: Mechanisms of communication in an ancient empire: The correspondence between the king of Assyria and his magnates in the 8th century BC
Grant Holder: Dr Karen Radner
The correspondence between Sargon II, king of Assyria (721-705 BC), and his governors and magnates is the largest text corpus of this kind known from antiquity and provides insight into the mechanisms of communication between the top levels of authority in an ancient empire. This website presents these letters together with resources and materials for their study and on their historical and cultural context. The research questions are: How did ancient empires cohere? What roles did long-distance communication play in that coherence? [read more]
Tags: 2d Scanning and photography Accessibility analysis Cataloguing and indexing Collaborative publishing Collating Content analysis Documentation Indexing Lemmatisation Parsing Resource sharing Searching and querying text Text encoding - descriptive Text encoding - presentational Text encoding - referential Textual interaction (asynchronous) Textual interaction (synchronous) Version control Web browser scripting
project: A Vision of Britain through Time
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This website presents the history of Great Britain through places between 1801 and 2001. It includes maps, statistical trends, a gazetteer of British administrative units, on-line versions of a selection of tables and early printed text from some of the published Census Reports as well as historical descriptions of places and journeys. The site is free to use and does not require any registration. [read more]
Tags: 2d Scanning and photography Cataloguing and indexing Collating Content-based image retrieval Documentation Geo-referencing and projection Heads-up digitising and interactive tracing Image enhancement Interface design Overlaying Parsing preservation Searching and querying Spatial Spatial data analysis text Text encoding - presentational Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Text recognition Usability analysis Visualisation
project: Great Britain Historical GIS project
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The Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System is a unique digital collection of information about Britain's localities as they have changed over time. Information comes from census reports, historical gazetteers, travellers' tales and historic maps, assembled into a whole that is much more than the sum of its parts. [read more]
project: Freeze Frame – Historic Polar Images 1845-1960
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Freeze Frame is the result of a two-year digitisation project that brings together photographs from both Arctic and Antarctic expeditions. Here you can discover the polar regions through the eyes of those explorers and scientists who dared to go into the last great wildernesses on earth.
The Freeze Frame project set out to conserve many of the historical photographic negatives collections held in the Scott Research Polar Institute (SRPI), University of Camnbridge. [read more]
project: Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity (2004)
Grant Holder: Professor Charlotte Roueché
This publication is the online second edition of a printed book, which first appeared in 1989, but was out of print: it incorporates new material found since 1989. The resource presents 250 inscribed texts from the 3rd-6th century, found at the ancient site of Aphrodisias in Caria (south-west Turkey): it includes extensive explanatory material and discussions, with detailed indices of people. The existence of the book makes it possible to compare the two ways of presenting the material. [read more]
tool: GeoParser
Submitted by natalie.hutchinson, last updated 12-03-2010
GeoParser is a text analysis tool that may be used to identify, tag and (where appropriate) disambiguate references to geographic location in a text resource. The tool uses Natural Language Processing to analyse the composition of a resource and identifying words that match its geographic database. The approach is useful for processing ambiguous references, such as names that may have one of several locations (e.g. Belfast in Ireland, New Zealand and Canada) and distinguishing names that may be confused with other action (e.g. Reading in Berkshire and reading as an activity). GeoParser may be used with GeoCrossWalk to tag a place name with full geographical coordinates (e.g. an OS National Grid Reference).
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| Methods relating to this tool | Category |
|---|---|
| Cataloguing and indexing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Content analysis | Data analysis |
| Data mining | Data analysis |
| Documentation | Strategy and project management |
| Geo-referencing and projection | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Parsing | Data analysis |
| Searching and querying | Data analysis |
| Spatial data analysis | Data analysis |
| Text encoding - referential | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text mining | Data analysis |
| Text recognition | Data capture |
| Textual interaction (asynchronous) | Communication and collaboration |
| Texture design and mapping | Practice-led research |
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Alternate tool(s):
Metacarta’s GeoTagger, Digital Reasoning’s GeoLocator, Lockheed Martin’s AeroText, and SRA’s NetOwl
- English Language and Literature
- Linguistics
- Modern Languages
- analysis
- publishing
- All major operating systems
- eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
- GeoParser
- HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
- metadata records
- plain text
- University of Edinburgh fee-free use (no modifications)
- Cataloguing and indexing
- Content analysis
- Data mining
- Documentation
- Geo-referencing and projection
- Parsing
- Searching and querying
- Spatial data analysis
- Text encoding - referential
- Text mining
- Text recognition
- Textual interaction (asynchronous)
- Texture design and mapping
- Geoparser
- Parsing
