Exploring Place in the French of Italy

Heather Hill

@HeatherVHill http://www.tinyurl.com/EPFOI2016

Exploring Place in the French of Italy (EPFOI)

French of Italy:

French-language works created or copied on the Italian peninsula from roughly 1250-1500

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Data Collection● Index - Place Names● Geonames.org & Geohack (Wikipedia’s Gazatteer) - Coordinates● ABBYY FineReader - OCR (Optical Character Recognition)● AntConc - Text Mining

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Visualization● Create maps on CartoDB● Customized annotations, color, and

size of markers

On Omeka

● Profile ● Downloadable Data● Micro Essays

Website

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Difficulties with EPFOI and our solutions

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Difficulties with EPFOI and our solutions

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Mid-Range Reading with EPFOI

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● Relatively small corpus● Larger geographic trends● Small-scale observations without intense

textual analysis

Mid-Range Reading with EPFOI

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● Extracted strings of characters that indicated place names

● Not looking closely at where the place names occurred in the text, but where the text took place

● Acknowledges individual texts while stepping away from the context within each one

Exploring Place in the French of Italy

Heather Hill

@ HeatherVHill http://www.tinyurl.com/EPFOI2016