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Location
London, Ontario
Website
https://www.lib.uwo.ca/madgic/gisday2020.html
Start Date
17-11-2020 10:00 AM
End Date
17-11-2020 10:00 AM
Description
Researchers consulting Carleton University Library's Ottawa Resource Collection are often looking for information on specific locations such as neighbourhoods, buildings, or addresses. When the Collection began to be digitized, an opportunity arose to build a software tool to extract geographic locations within the City of Ottawa. The resulting tool outputs geospatial coordinates (points, lines, and polygons) for each found location, utilizing openly available GIS datasets to build a lexicon of locations to extract from the texts.
SRT File for Rebecca Bartlett's lightning talk.
Using GIS data to find and extract locations in historic texts, Lightning Talk (7 min)
London, Ontario
Researchers consulting Carleton University Library's Ottawa Resource Collection are often looking for information on specific locations such as neighbourhoods, buildings, or addresses. When the Collection began to be digitized, an opportunity arose to build a software tool to extract geographic locations within the City of Ottawa. The resulting tool outputs geospatial coordinates (points, lines, and polygons) for each found location, utilizing openly available GIS datasets to build a lexicon of locations to extract from the texts.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/wlgisday/2020/lighteningtalks/20