Europeana Geoparsing Service

Europeana Geoparsing Service - v1.0 beta

Unstructured text and semi-structured text (metadata records) may contain mentions to places and historical periods that are not directly usable by software applications. Geoparsing consists in automatically extracting structured information about places and historical periods from these textual resources. The Geoparser is a web service where users can provide textual sentences or metadata records, and it will reply with an XML document containing the geoparsing results.

Geoparse ESE xml metadata record

Note: only descriptive metadata elements are geoparsed (ex: title, description, coverage, etc.).
Example A Example B Example C Example D

<record xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:europeana="http://www.europeana.eu" > 
      <dc:title >Herrbacka skogsmark och areal</dc:title>  
      <dcterms:issued >2008-03-11</dcterms:issued>  
      <dcterms:spatial >Finland</dcterms:spatial>  
      <dcterms:spatial >Östra Nyland</dcterms:spatial>  
      <dcterms:spatial >Borgå</dcterms:spatial>  
      <dc:description >Herrbacka skogsmark och areal. Odaterad.</dc:description>  
      <dcterms:isPartOf >Stensböle gårds arkiv</dcterms:isPartOf>  
      <dcterms:isPartOf >SLSA 1070</dcterms:isPartOf>  
      <dc:language >swe</dc:language>  
      <dc:publisher >Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland, HLA</dc:publisher>  
      <dc:source >SLSA 1070</dc:source>  
      <dc:subject >ägande</dc:subject>  
      <dc:subject >jordinnehav</dc:subject>  
      <dc:subject >byar</dc:subject>  
      <dc:type >kartor</dc:type>  
      <dc:type >map</dc:type>  
      <dc:format >image/jpeg</dc:format>  
      <dcterms:extent >355 x 440 mm</dcterms:extent>  
      <dc:identifier >HLA:slsa1070_k14</dc:identifier>  
      <europeana:uri >http://www.europeana.eu/resolve/record/01201/3C2F001170A54C7A789861F17CD554F1E7359EFC</europeana:uri>  
      <dc:rights >fri</dc:rights>  
      <dcterms:isFormatOf >slsa1070_k14.tif</dcterms:isFormatOf>  
      <europeana:object >http://www.sls.fi/databasen/slsa1070/slsa1070_k14.jpg</europeana:object>  
      <europeana:provider >Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland</europeana:provider>  
      <europeana:isShownBy >http://www.sls.fi/databasen/slsa1070/slsa1070_k14.jpg</europeana:isShownBy>  
      <europeana:hasObject >true</europeana:hasObject>  
      <europeana:country >finland</europeana:country>  
      <europeana:type >IMAGE</europeana:type>  
      <europeana:language >fi</europeana:language> 
</record>

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