We put together this long list of different things that happened during the Chalice project, for our last bi-weekly project meeting, on 28th April 2011. The final product post offers an introduction to Chalice.
Tangibles
These are pieces of work completed to form the project:
- Corrected OCR for 5 EPNS volumes (*not* open licensed)
- Quality assessment of the OCR
- Extracted data in XML
- Report on the text-mining and georeferencing process
- RDF representation of extracted data, Open Database License
- Searchable JSON API for the extracted data
- Two prototype visualisations
- Source code for the preceding 4 items
- Two use case assessments
- Supporting material for the use case assessments
- Simple web service for alt-names for ADS
- Sample Integration with GBHGIS data
Intangibles
These are less concrete but equally valuable side-effects of the project work:
- A set of sameAs assertions for Cheshire names between geonames and Ordnance Survey 50K gazetteer to go to sameas.org
- Historic place-name data to enhance geonames.org with, potentially.
- Improvements to the Edinburgh Geoparser and the Unlock Text service
- Pushed forward open source release of the Geoparser
- Refactoring of the Unlock Places service
- Discussions and potential alignment with other projects (SPQR, Pleiades, GBHGIS)
- Discussions with other place-name surveys (SPNS – Wales?)
Talks / Dissemination
- JISC Place-names workshop Sept 2011
- FOSS4G Sept 2010
- All Hands Meeting (poster) Sept 2011
- WhereCamp UK, Nottingham, Nov 2010
- Pelagios #jiscgeo workshop March 2011
- Classical Association Conference April 2011
- Linked Data workshop at GISRUK April 2011