The DISSINET team is now complete!
We are delighted to announce that, after two highly competitive hiring processes, DISSINET has gained two new members: Gideon Kotzé (computational linguist) and Larissa de Freitas Lyth (historian)
Historical Geocoding Assistant in SoftwareX
Historical Geocoding Assistant, an application developped in DISSINET, gains visibility through a publication in SoftwareX, co-authored by Adam Mertel, David Zbíral, Zdeněk Stachoň, and Hana Hořínková.
SoftwareX (Elsevier) has published a DISSINET article on the Historical Geocoding Assistant, developed under the Czech Science Foundation EXPRO funding (lead author and developer: Adam Mertel). The article features the problems in the geocoding of historical datasets and presents the choices and challenges in the development of this specialized software as well as of a user test. It has been fun developping it, and now the application is out there for anybody to test, and geocode a table of locations made in (or transferred to) Google Sheets. Try it out.
Cite this article and the software:
Adam Mertel, David Zbíral, Zdeněk Stachoň, and Hana Hořínková, ‘Historical Geocoding Assistant’, SoftwareX 14 (2021): 100682, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2021.100682.
