Programs have scanned through the objects in the Persus Digital Library searching for what look like dates and places. We will be documenting the work that we have done over the course of the next several months, but we can already offer the following preliminary information. Dates have proven relatively easy to identify. The timelines provide a very accurate general picture of the temporal focus of each collection.
Place names are much harder to extract.
A great deal of work can be done to refine our current results, but the automatically generated maps nevertheless do provide a reasonable sense of geographic coverage. 17 November 2000.