Historical Geocoding Assistant, an application developped in DISSINET, gains visibility through a publication in SoftwareX, co-authored by Adam Mertel, David Zbíral, Zdeněk Stachoň, and Hana Hořínková.
SoftwareX (Elsevier) has published a DISSINET article on the Historical Geocoding Assistant, developed under the Czech Science Foundation EXPRO funding (lead author and developer: Adam Mertel). The article features the problems in the geocoding of historical datasets and presents the choices and challenges in the development of this specialized software as well as of a user test. It has been fun developping it, and now the application is out there for anybody to test, and geocode a table of locations made in (or transferred to) Google Sheets. Try it out.
Cite this article and the software:
Adam Mertel, David Zbíral, Zdeněk Stachoň, and Hana Hořínková, ‘Historical Geocoding Assistant’, SoftwareX 14 (2021): 100682, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2021.100682.
David Zbíral & Robert L. J. Shaw have published the most up-to-date summary of the rich debate on the uses of medieval inquisition records. In a last, substantial section, the article explains the core of DISSINET's research agenda.
The project of computational historiography needs not only to adopt the modelling for representing the target phenomena but also to achieve a complex representation of the textual sources and its interpretive layers. To do the latter, we have developed an approach that we call “source modelling”.