Text mining the English Place Name Survey to produce a Linked Data historic gazetteer for areas of England, which can then be used to improve the quality of georeferencing other archives. The gazetteer will be linked to other placename sources on the Linked Data web via geonames.org and linkedgeodata.org. Intensive user engagement with archive projects that can benefit from the open data gazetteer and open source text mining tools.

Connecting Historical Authorities with Linked Data, Contexts and Entities

Text mining the English Place Name Survey to produce a Linked Data historic gazetteer for areas of England, which can then be used to improve the quality of georeferencing other archives. The gazetteer will be linked to other placename sources on the Linked Data web via geonames.org and linkedgeodata.org. Intensive user engagement with archive projects that can benefit from the open data gazetteer and open source text mining tools.

Project Staff

Project Director

Jo Walsh - EDINA, University of Edinburgh

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Summary
Start date
25 June 2010
End date
25 February 2011
Funding programme
Information Environment Programme 2009-11
Strand
Exposing digital content for reuse (jiscEXPO)
Lead institutions

EDINA, University of Edinburgh

Committees
  • JISC Infrastructure and Resources Committee