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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 [log in to unmask] On 2/14/16, 11:00 PM, "Code for Libraries on behalf of CODE4LIB automatic digest system" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote: >There is 1 message totaling 37 lines in this issue. > >Topics of the day: > > 1. introduction, and a fun date visualization > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 09:48:33 -0500 >From: Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: introduction, and a fun date visualization > >On Feb 10, 2016, at 1:06 AM, Greg Lindahl <[log in to unmask]> 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 > >------------------------------ > >End of CODE4LIB Digest - 12 Feb 2016 to 14 Feb 2016 (#2016-40) >**************************************************************