Tag Archives: place_names

Weeknotes: Places in Open Correspondence

I’ve been doing some work to Open Correspondence over the last couple of weeks. I started re-parsing the letters to expose some more metadata, mainly placenames and to normalise them. I’ve finally done the first pass of this update which I’m hoping to make live soon once I’ve updated the controllers and re-checked the other […]

February 6, 2011 – 1:25 pm | By iain_emsley | Posted in projects, weeknotes | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Contextualising places in time

As part of the Open Correspondence project, I’ve started to look at place names and locations to build a set of temporal and spatial data for the letters to allow for geographical queries. As part of the search, I came across a reference to Sean Gillies’ useful blog post talking about modelling historical place names […]

November 21, 2010 – 4:46 pm | By iain_emsley | Posted in projects, Text Mining | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)