Slides for my talk at the British Library, 2 November 2015

2. http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/21cc/struggle/chartists1/historicalsources/source6/kenningtoncommon.html

3. But how many meetings?

5. Days of searching the images and mapping by hand ….
Or just under 2.30 mins of Python running?
Take your choice!

7. • Redo the OCR of
original image files
using Abbyy
Finereader 12
OCR

8. • Redo the OCR of
original image files
using Abbyy
Finereader 12
OCR
• Python code to
extract place
names &
• geo-code places
using a gazetteer
Geo-code • Python code with
regex to extract
dates
• Basic NLP to
calculate the dates
of words like
‘tomorrow’
Date

9. In 462 towns & villages and
counting…

17. https://about.me/katrina.navickas