Workshop at DIGHT-Net Summer School in Digital Cultural Heritage - (Re)Mediating the Past

University of Tallinn, Estonia

29. August 2025, 11:00–12:30

This hands-on workshop introduces the basic principles of geoparsing – the process of identifying and interpreting place references in textual sources. Through practical exercises and group discussion, participants will learn how spatial information embedded in historical and literary texts can be extracted, visualised and analysed to support new kinds of research questions. No prior programming skills are required. By the end of the session, participants will have experimented with accessible tools to explore how texts can be transformed into maps, and how spatial approaches can enrich cultural and historical analysis.

See the code repository in GitHub.

You can open the interactive Jupyter Notebook in Binder or Colab.