{"id":116,"date":"2014-09-19T21:51:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T02:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/syriaca.org\/blog\/?p=431"},"modified":"2014-09-19T21:51:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T02:51:01","slug":"91614-national-states-geographic-information-council-annual-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/michelson\/2014\/09\/91614-national-states-geographic-information-council-annual-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/16\/14 National States Geographic Information Council Annual Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In September, Anthony Davis, a Ph.D. student at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, and a Syriaca.org research assistant, introduced Syriaca.org to state Geographic Information Officers from around the country in his presentation, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsgic.org\/public_resources\/2014_09_16_10_Texts-Davis.pdf\">\u201cGeographic Texts: Using Machine Reading to Markup Geographic References in Texts\u201d<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsgic.org\/index.php?page_id=1061\">National States Geographic Information Council 2014 Annual Conference<\/a> in Charleston, SC. Davis discussed the Syriac Gazetteer in detail highlighting the fact that the gazetteer\u2019s data files reside in the open-source eXist XML DB and is encoded following the Text Encoding Initiative\u2019s (TEI) standards. Davis demonstrated how this open data architecture allows one to use the Syriac Gazetteer as an \u201cAuthority File\u201d to programmatically \u2013 via the XML query language known as xQuery \u2013 find geographic references in text documents. While this method is of great interest to those in academic settings, Davis concluded the presentation with a scenario where federal, state and local governments can use the same eXist architecture to geocode their own agency\u2019s government documents, such as Laws and Statutes. Slides from Davis&#8217; presentation are available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsgic.org\/public_resources\/2014_09_16_10_Texts-Davis.pdf\">http:\/\/www.nsgic.org\/public_resources\/2014_09_16_10_Texts-Davis.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September, Anthony Davis, a Ph.D. student at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, and a Syriaca.org research assistant, introduced Syriaca.org to state Geographic Information Officers from around the country in his presentation, \u201cGeographic Texts: Using Machine Reading to Markup Geographic References in Texts\u201d at the National States Geographic Information Council 2014 Annual Conference in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,9,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference","category-exist-db","category-public-presentations","category-syriac-gazetteer","category-tei-xml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/michelson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/michelson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/michelson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/michelson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/michelson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/michelson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/michelson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/michelson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/michelson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}