| HK-250673-16 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Implementation Grants | Wayne State University | Textual Geographies | 9/1/2016 - 8/31/2020 | $325,000.00 | Matthew | | Wilkens | | | | Wayne State University | Detroit | MI | 48201-1347 | USA | 2016 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Digital Humanities Implementation Grants | Digital Humanities | 325000 | 0 | 325000 | 0 | The further refinement of the dataset and the
development of the user interface for the Textual Geographies project, which allows scholars and students to extract and study spatial references found in collections
housed in the HathiTrust Digital Library.
The Textual Geographies project collects, organizes, and makes widely available high-quality geographic data from millions of books in multiple languages to enable new scholarship in the humanities. The project responds to demonstrated need in fields including literary studies, history, foreign languages, area studies, geography, and allied disciplines for large-scale information about the uses of geographic space in textual sources. Textual Geographies builds on the resources of the HathiTrust Digital Library, using natural language processing and geocoding techniques to associate spatial data with textual references in about 10 million digitized volumes. The project integrates with the products and services of the HathiTrust Research Center and provides a sophisticated, intuitive user interface akin to Google Ngrams for visualization and analysis, as well as direct access to the underlying geographic data. |