Mapping the letters of Donald Maclean using BatchGeo. Presentation by Max Sullivan, Victoria University of Wellington at Visualising Correspondence Networks Hackfest, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand 2 September, 2013 http://wtap.vuw.ac.nz/wordpress/digital-history/events/visualising-correspondence-networks/

1. Mapping letters to Donald
McLean using BatchGeo
Max Sullivan
Victoria University of Wellington
Library

2. Introduction
•Charlotte Macdonald’s Hist316 class.
•Encoding letters from McLean Paper collection
•TEI XML
•Building on 2007 project between NZETC & Nat
Lib.

3. Hacking the letters
•2007 project produced 6000+ letters in TEI
•Idea: plot locations of letters on a map!
<opener>
<address>
<name type="geographic">Wanganui.</name>
</address>
•Awk, Sort & Cat Commands = spreadsheet

4. BatchGeo
•Works with or without geo data.
•Pins Maori and European names together eg:
Akarana and Auckland
•Letters from Military Camps and Ships.

5. Example 1
http://batchgeo.com/map/7eaaf3376595bd232
bb6b8a24bd447de

6. Example 2
http://batchgeo.com/map/ae922cbd28014300e97