Spatialising Sarah Barclay Johnson's travelogue around Jerusalem (1858)

Project Timeline

Timeframe	Task	Completion
Week 11	Matching the coordinates of the locations from chapter 3 QGIS mapping of the locations from chapter 3	✓
Week 12	Visualizing the full chapter 3 journey Retrieving the locations from the entire book
Week 13	Matching the coordinates of the locations from the entire book QGIS Mapping of the locations from the entire book Visualizing the full journey
Week 14	Complete GitHub repository Complete Wiki page Complete presentation

Methodology

Detecting Locations

Preliminary Analysis for Model Selection - Assessment Focusing on Chapter 3

Manual detection

Spacy Results

GPT-4 Results

Since the GPT-4 Results outperformed the results of Spacy NER, presented GPT-4 prompt has been used to retrieve the locations in the book.

Tracking Author's Route on Maps

• Fuzzy matching results and existing location list
• QGIS
• GeoPandas