"Cutting edge" research

"I have some good news from the world of open access and ancient materials. Leif Isaksen at the University's School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) is working together with Dr Elton Barker at The Open University and Dr Eric Kansa of the University of California-Berkeley on the "Google Ancient Places (GAP): Discovering historic geographical entities in the Google Books corpus" project. The GAP researchers will enable internet users worldwide to search the Google Books corpus to find books related to a geographic location and within a particular time period. The results can then be visualised on GoogleMaps or in GoogleEarth. Web widgets will make it possible for webmasters to add links to the ancient texts within their websites, enabling the public and researchers to search for them easily...."