Political Meetings Mapper with British Library Labs: mapping the origins of British democratic movements with text-mining, NLP, geo-parsing and crowd-sourcing

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http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/21cc/struggle/chartists1/historicalsources/source6/kenningtoncommon.html

But how many meetings?

• Redo the OCR of original image files using AbbyyFinereader 12

OCR

• Python code to extract place names &

• geo-code places using a gazetteer

Geo-code • Python code with regex to extract dates

• Basic NLP to calculate the dates of words like ‘tomorrow’

Date

https://github.com/BL-Labs/meetingsparser

http://sandbox.idre.ucla.edu/tools/geocoder/

In 462 towns & villages and counting…

http://politicalmeetingsmapper.co.uk/

http://politicalmeetingsmapper.co.uk/

http://www.silva-sandbox.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/old-graduate/research/space

http://www.silva-sandbox.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/old-graduate/research/space

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Political Meetings Mapper with British Library Labs: mapping the origins of British democratic movements with text-mining, NLP, geo-parsing and crowd-sourcing

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