I don't even know if I'm deploying the correct terminology, but here goes.
I have been adding linguistic information to the Digital Index of Middle English Verse (www.dimev.net) from the Linguistic Atlases of Late and Early Medieval English. Their references are to a grid, which doesn't seem to be useful in the long term (if I'm wrong about this, please say so).
What we would like to do, or collaborate with somebody to do, is add geospatial coordinates for the anchor and localized texts with the aim of linking them to a mapping program (Google or something else).
Is anyone already doing this in the digital-medieval world, or does this wheel need inventing by someone.
Naively,
Dan
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Hi Dan (and other dm-ers),
This does sound like a good idea. Lots of people are doing geographic visualisation as well, so you're in good company.
Can you give some examples of the ones you've been adding the linguistic information to? That might help members of the list understand the issues involved.
I'd also like to ask what formats you are using for recording the data. I.e. when you enter the linguistic information or otherwise edit the entry, what does the entry look like? Is it a form-based relational database? Is it HTML? Is it XML?
I'm only beginning to work with geographic data myself (my very first experiment is here, and its just on Google maps: http://dpod.kakelbont.ca/2012/07/17/sightlines-a-visualisation-of-the-holoca...)
But it is certainly possible to link things.
Anybody with more experience?
-dan
On 12-08-21 06:51 AM, Dan Mosser wrote:
I don't even know if I'm deploying the correct terminology, but here goes.
I have been adding linguistic information to the Digital Index of Middle English Verse (www.dimev.net) from the Linguistic Atlases of Late and Early Medieval English. Their references are to a grid, which doesn't seem to be useful in the long term (if I'm wrong about this, please say so).
What we would like to do, or collaborate with somebody to do, is add geospatial coordinates for the anchor and localized texts with the aim of linking them to a mapping program (Google or something else).
Is anyone already doing this in the digital-medieval world, or does this wheel need inventing by someone.
Naively,
Dan
˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜ Dan Mosser dmosser@vt.edu Office: Shanks 229
Snailmail: Director of Graduate Studies English Department 0112 Shanks Hall 180 Turner Street NW Blacksburg, VA 24061
VOICE: (540) 231-7753 FAX: (540) 231-5692
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