geobooking - books to locations and back

This is awesome:

Gutenkarte is a geographic text browser, intended to help readers explore the spatial component of classic works of literature. Gutenkarte downloads public domain texts from Project Gutenberg, and then feeds them to MetaCarta's GeoParser API, which extracts and returns all the geographic locations it can find. Gutenkarte stores these locations in a database, along with citations into the text itself, and offers an interface where the book can be browsed by chapter, by place, or all at once on an interactive map. Ultimately, Gutenkarte will offer the ability to annotate and correct the places in the database, so that the community will be able construct and share rich geographic views of Project Gutenberg's enormous body of literary classics.

I was searching for GutenCarte, which I fortunately found via YALSA.

via Talis Library 2.0 Mashup podcast, Thomas again

ideal mashup... a combination of the library catalogue, Google Maps and Flickr where when you find a book, you can find where the geographic action takes place in that book on Google Maps and you can find pictures of that place in Flickr... I would love to have that integrated in the library catalogue or any interface, or doing the other way around and saying "what kind of books are about this place?" or going to Flickr and saying "oh that's a cool picture, what kind of books are about this place?"

Previously:
January 12, 2006  libraries as warehouses of dead paper: set your books electronically free

Comments

[Paul Miller]

Gutenkarte is also linked to in the show notes to the podcast... :-)