Finding Places in Text with the World Historical Gazeteer

Researchers often need to be able to search a corpus of texts for a defined list of terms and historians are often interested in certain places named in a text or texts. This lesson details how to programmatically search documents for a list of terms, including place names and then how to obtain coo...

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Veröffentlicht in:The programming historian 2022-02, Vol.11
Hauptverfasser: Susan Grunewald, Andrew Janco
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Researchers often need to be able to search a corpus of texts for a defined list of terms and historians are often interested in certain places named in a text or texts. This lesson details how to programmatically search documents for a list of terms, including place names and then how to obtain coordinates and map historical place names with the World Historical Gazetteer.
ISSN:2397-2068
DOI:10.46430/phen0096