IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 1528: The ChartEx Project: Exploring Spatial Locations in Medieval Charters
Thursday 4 July 2013, 09.00-10.30
Organiser: | Sarah Rees Jones, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
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Moderator/Chair: | Michael Gervers, 'Documents of Early England Dataset' Project, University of Toronto, Downtown |
Paper 1528-a | People, Places, and Events in Charters: Exploring the Language of Charters within ChartEx (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Computing in Medieval Studies, Local History |
Paper 1528-b | Reconstructing Spatial Relationships from Charters: A Collaboration between Data Mining and Historical Topography (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Computing in Medieval Studies, Local History |
Paper 1528-c | Developing a Virtual Workbench for Charter Historians (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Computing in Medieval Studies, Local History |
Abstract | This session will demonstrate the work of ChartEx, a collaborative project funded under the International Digging into Data Challenge 2012-2013. ChartEx is developing new ways of exploring the full text content of medieval digital charters, using Natural Language Processing and Data Mining. The focus is on recovering and reconstructing spatial data about people and the places where they lived and owned property. The project is also developing a virtual workbench to allow users to validate, improve, and manipulate this spatial data. The research team includes partners in six universities in the UK, the US, Canada, and the Netherlands, www.chartex.org. |