Open AccessFinding Places in Text with the World Historical Gazetteer
Author(s) -
Susan Grunewald,
Andrew Janco
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
the programming historian
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2397-2068
DOI - 10.46430/phen0096
Subject(s) - toponymy , history , information retrieval , computer science , archaeology
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.