A demo built in a couple of weeks for the Library of Congress Data Jam. It explores a collection of 90,000 digitised books by finding and mapping places mentioned in the text.
created: 2022 ok
The American World Gazetteer
or too much text, too little time...
Related resources
Sherratt, Tim. “Recent Presentations – Library of Congress Data Jam, Everyday Heritage, Wikidata, and GLAM Workbench!” Tim Sherratt – Sharing Recent Updates and Work-in-Progress, Dec. 2022, https://updates.timsherratt.org/2022/12/10/recent-presentations-library.html.
Sherratt, Tim. LoC Data Jam Project. 2022, https://vimeo.com/763639279.
Now Playing: The CCHC Data Jam! | The Signal. https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2022/12/now-playing-the-cchc-data-jam/. Accessed 1 July 2025.
“Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud Data Jam.” Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024698320/. Accessed 1 July 2025.
