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.
It is a familiar image: a woman in distress, surrounded by men examining her soul in a dimly lit inquisitorial chamber. In fear of physical torture, she confesses to crimes she never committed. We bring you an online version of our article originally published in History Today.
DISSINET has developed an interactive map of the occupations, dissident religious affiliations, and locations of residence of nearly 900 persons suspected of heresy in the inquisition register of Bologna, 1291–1310.
