Monthly Archives: February 2012

Trying to geolocate a part of Charles Dickens

I have been working at a snail’s pace on some geolocation queries on some locations which are associated with Charles Dickens. Using Python’s NLTK library, I managed to extract around 60 distinct locations from his novel, Bleak House. A bit of human editing has tidied this up for me but it looks useful. Having popped […]

February 20, 2012 – 7:45 pm | By iain_emsley | Posted in Programming, projects | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Weeknotes: Open Correspondence and TextCamp

It has been a while since I’ve written a weeknote. Must get back into the habit. Open Correspondence Development on the Open Correspondence project has been slow to stalled for a while. I have been doing bits and pieces but sitting down with Mark McGillivray of Cottage Labs and the Open Knowledge Foundation, brought some […]

February 19, 2012 – 2:20 pm | By iain_emsley | Posted in projects, weeknotes | Tagged , | Comments (0)