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Two
\nrecent<\/a>
\n
\nentries<\/a> drew my attention to the Gutenkarte
\nproject<\/a>, a series of scripts and processes that renders place-names
\nappearing in a given text and locates them on
\na map<\/a>. The Gutenkarte site announces
\nfuture plans for the project, including a wiki-like annotation add-on that will
\nenable a group of users to collaborate in expanding the place-name information
\nand related contextual relevance (one day to include digital images and video?).
\nThe project bears many similarities to Franco Moretti’s survey of the shifting
\ngeographies of village life in the nineteenth century. Moretti’s analysis often
\nmoves beyond standard place-names to include positions of and distances between
\npeople and things known to be in particular places. These he distinguishes as
\ngeometries; plotted, they are more like diagrams than maps, he tells us (54).
\nThe Gutenkarte project is not yet as refined as Moretti’s work; mining a text
\nfor toponyms depends on the database’s tolerance place-name ambiguity and
\nspelling variations (among other things I probably don’t understand). Still,
\ndespite the obvious limitations, the motives underlying Gutenkarte present an
\naffirmative answer to one of Moretti’s guiding questions, "Do maps add anything,
\nto our knowledge of literature?" (35), even if it is being applied to literary
\ntexts from the Gutenberg Project for now. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The next move to consider, and the one I’m thinking about in light of the
\nGutenkarte project, is what other text sets, subject to this process, would
\npresent us with maps worth looking at or, that is, with spatial relations (or,
\nwith geometrics of positions and distances) suggestive of geographies worth
\nunderstanding better than we already do? Only easy answers come to mind.
\nUnderstanding the limitations and crudity (in spelling, in perfect place-name
\ncoordinates, etc.), what would this look like if applied not only to
\nThe Odyssey<\/a> but to classical texts in
\nrhetoric? Or, and this would be almost as satisfying (from the standpoint of
\nwhat-if<\/i>s and other shoulder-shrugging curiosity), what might this mean for a
\nset of texts, an archive or journal articles let’s say, central to composition
\nstudies? Following Gutenkarte’s logics, we would have the means to select among
\ngeographic renderings by year, by article and so on. One of these days…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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