Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 1,800 words
Today we’ll introduce ourselves and talk about:
In addition to the topics above, please come prepared to talk about::
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Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 15,000 words
For today’s class, please meet in the lobby of Wilson Library at 9:25.
We are meeting in room 901, on the 4th floor of Wilson. It can be hard to find, which is why we’re planning on meeting in the lobby.
We will meet with:
We will see some items from the notes of William S. Powell, the compiler of the original North Carolina Gazetteer. We’ll try to get a sense of what it means to have a collection based on a place like “North Carolina.” And we’ll talk about
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Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 15,600 words
During the second half of class, we will have a hands-on activity that will involve some digging into the digital version of Powell’s gazetteer.
Before today, please do four things:
To read before this meeting:
Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 19,500 words
Today we’ll be joined (via Zoom) by Karl Grossner, Technical Director of the World-Historical Gazetteer. Karl is also involved in Linked Pasts and Pelagios and is leading the development of GeoJSON-T. His dissertation focused on the representation of historical knowledge in GIS.
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You might also explore the Who’s On First gazetteer: https://www.whosonfirst.org
Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 46,300 words
Before you do the reading for this week, you’ll want to make sure your computer is set up to look at Turtle files and to do SPARQL queries, so that you can follow along with the exercises in the texts.
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Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 16,400 words
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Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 14,800 words
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Instead of reading the slides, you might prefer to watch a video of the presentation.
Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 17,500 words
Content warning “Perceptual Regions in Texas” contains discussion of ethnic slurs.
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Total amount of required reading for this meeting: 12,300 words
Today we’ll be joined (via Zoom) by Rainer Simon, Senior Scientist and Research Software Engineer at the Austrian Institute of Technology and Technical Director for Pelagios. Rainer’s Recogito tool allows people to annotate texts and images by linking them to identifiers for people, places, and things. It is widely used to link mentions of places and locations on maps to entries in digital gazetteers. Recogito has received multiple awards for its usefulness and ease-of-use. Part of what makes Recogito successful is that it participates in an ecosystem of tools and datasets that share identifiers for people, places, and things and loosely agree on data formatting standards. Many of the other important tools in this ecosystem are Rainer’s work, such as the Peripleo search engine.
To read before this meeting:
“How Infrastructure Happens” is one section of a longer article entitled “How to Infrastructure.” The whole article is worth reading, but if you don’t have the time or interest, at least read the “How Infrastructure Happens” section.