Greg,
I wonıt be a at Code4Lib, but if you or anyone else is interested, Iıve
played around with something somewhat similar using metadata from DPLA,
Europeana and Digital New Zealand, http://www.deanfarr.com/meta-dash.
Dean
Dean Farrell
Digital Repository Analyst
University of North Carolina Libraries
919-962-3868
lfarrell_at_email.unc.edu
On 2/14/16, 11:00 PM, "Code for Libraries on behalf of CODE4LIB automatic
digest system" <CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU on behalf of
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>Topics of the day:
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> 1. introduction, and a fun date visualization
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>Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 09:48:33 -0500
>From: Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_ND.EDU>
>Subject: Re: introduction, and a fun date visualization
>
>On Feb 10, 2016, at 1:06 AM, Greg Lindahl <lindahl_at_PBM.COM> wrote:
>
>> Hi! I'm a new employee of the Internet Archive, formerly a search
>> engine guy, mostly working on search for the Wayback Machine. In my
>> spare time I've been working on a visualization of dates and entities
>> in scanned book contents. There's a blog post about it here:
>>
>>
>>https://blog.archive.org/2016/02/09/how-will-we-explore-books-in-the-21st
>>-century/
>>
>> And the demo itself is here:
>>
>> https://books.archivelab.org/dateviz/
>>
>> I'm going to be attending the Philly conference, and I'm looking
>> forward to hearing from folks about other discovery tools driven
>> by content or algorithmic metadata.
>>
>>
>> greg
>
>
>Yes, very cool. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
>
>From my point of view, Greg, you have created an alternative and
>supplemental index to one or more books. While printed books have a whole
>lot of utility, digital books manifest a different sets of functionality.
>Imagine having a digital book and then providing services against the
>text that go beyond find. (³Blasphemy!²) One of the services would be
>graphing as you (literally) illustrate above. Other services might be
>parts-of-speech analysis, definition extraction, tabulations of
>additional named-entities, etc. While reading fiction is many times
>intended for ³just fun², I believe these sorts of services may make
>fiction more interesting as well as more accessible for study. Again,
>thank you.
>
>
>Eric Lease Morgan
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