https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/author/rnelson/Recent content in Rnelson on Journal of Digital HumanitiesHugoen-USFri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-3/review-of-mapping-texts-by-robert-nelson/Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-3/review-of-mapping-texts-by-robert-nelson/<p><a href="http://mappingtexts.org/" title="Mapping Texts">Mapping Texts</a> addresses a pressing problem and an exciting opportunity that many working in digital humanities are tackling: now that we have massive amounts of historical evidence digitized, what new questions can we pose and what new knowledge can we produce? Developed though a collaboration of two teams at the University of North Texas and Stanford University — the former led by Andrew Torget and including Mark Phillips, Rada Mihalcea, and Eliza Tze-I Yang; the latter led by Jon Christensen and including Cameron Blevins, Rio Akasaka, Geoff McGhee, Yinfeng Qin, and Jason Ninxuan Wang — the project seeks, to quote their <a href="http://mappingtexts.stanford.edu/whitepaper/MappingTexts_WhitePaper.pdf" title="Mapping Texts white paper">white paper</a>, “to help scholars develop new tools for coping effectively with the growing challenge of doing research in the age of abundance” by marrying two common methods: text mining and geovisualization.</p>