https://github.com/enridaga/gapvis

A visual interface for reading ancient texts for the Google Ancient Places project
https://github.com/enridaga/gapvis

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A visual interface for reading ancient texts for the Google Ancient Places project

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/enridaga/gapvis
• Owner: enridaga
• License: other
• Fork: true (nrabinowitz/gapvis)
• Created: 2013-10-19T16:59:15.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-03-13T22:56:41.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-16T22:31:33.547Z (5 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: http://googleancientplaces.wordpress.com
• Size: 8.08 MB
• Stars: 5
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 8
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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README

        
# GapVis

### About

GapVis is part of the [Google Ancient Places project](http://googleancientplaces.wordpress.com/). You can read more about some of the technical considerations and the design process here:

 * [Building a Single-Page Application for GAP, Part 1](http://googleancientplaces.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/building-a-single-page-application-for-gap-part-1/)

 * [Building a Single-Page Application for GAP, Part 2](http://googleancientplaces.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/building-a-single-page-application-for-gap-part-2/)

 * [Designing a Visual Interface for GAP Texts](http://googleancientplaces.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/designing-a-visual-interface-for-gap-texts/)

 

Comments and questions welcomed at nick (at) nickrabinowitz (dot) com.

### Use it

* Download a packaged dist from [https://github.com/enridaga/gapvis/releases](https://github.com/enridaga/gapvis/releases)

* Unpack the folder

* Edit the config/settings.productions.js file to point to your data service

* Deploy it on your Web Server

### API specification

This section describes what a data provider must implement to use GapVis as visualization tool.

#### /books/.json

List of available books, with core metadata:

    [

        {

            "id":"1",

            "title":"Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography",

            "uri":"http:\/\/www.google.com\/books?id=-C0BAAAAQAAJ",

            "author":"Labadius-Zymethus",

            "printed":"1857"

        },

        {

            "id":"2",

            "title":"The Works of Cornelius Tacitus: The History",

            "uri":"http:\/\/www.google.com\/books?id=2X5KAAAAYAAJ",

            "author":"Cornelius Tacitus","printed":"1805"

        }, ...

    ]

See also:

    http://gap.alexandriaarchive.org/books/.json

#### /books/<book_id>.json

Book info, with metadata and a list of pages with place refs and a list of places appearing here, with core data only:

	{

		"id":"1",

		"title":"Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography",

		"uri":"http:\/\/www.google.com\/books?id=-C0BAAAAQAAJ",

		"author":"Labadius-Zymethus",

		"printed":"1857",

		"pages":[

			{

				"id":-7,

				"places": [148142,157894,197448,216904,246539, ... ]

			}, ...

		],

		"places":[

			{

				"id":766,

				"title":

				"Aegyptus",

				"ll":[

					32.5,

					32.5

				]

			}, ...

		],

		"texts":[

			{

				"lang": "grc",

				"label": "Ancient Greek"

			}

		]

	}

The "texts" attribute is optional. Use it to declare there are alternative texts in addition to the default (see next section).

See also:

    http://gap.alexandriaarchive.org/books/1.json

#### /book/<book_id>/page/<page_id>.json

Page info, including text - id either number or other id scheme (note the syntax for marking place references in the HTML text). It is also possible to provide additional texts using the "text@lang" attribute name: 

    {

        "text":" IASPIS. IATRUS<\/span>. 5 coast of Pantos, 130 stadia to the north-east of IV letnoninm; it is the most projecting cape on that roan, and forms the terminating point of the chain of Mount Paryadres. It was believed to have re- wired its name from the fact that Jason had landed there. (Strab. xii. p. M8; Arrian, Peripl. p. 17; Anonym. Peripl. p. 11; Ptol. v. 6.  4; Xenoph. A nab. vi. 2.  1, who calls it'Iwrovia S  t?'j.) It still bears the name Jasoon, [...] A second town of the name of Iassus existed in Cappadocia<\/span> or Armenia<\/span> Minor<\/span> [...] ",

        "text@grc":"(Greek version here)",

		"image":"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=-C0BAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U3ghy3Vlj6M8IqUKakKJjFI8-LYdg&ci=0%2C0%2C1000%2C2000&edge=0"

    }

See also:

    http://gap.alexandriaarchive.org/books/1/page/1.json

#### /places/<place_id>/books.json

Info about books containing references to the place:

	[

		{

    		"id":"13”,

			"tokenCount":"5”,

			"uri":"http:\/\/www.google.com\/books?id=IlUMAQAAMAAJ”,

			"title":"History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman empire for the use of families and young persons, Volume I”,

			"authors":"Edward Gibbon, Thomas Bowdler”,

			"date":"1826”,

			"created":"0000-00-00 00:00:00”,

			"updated":"2011-10-17 10:48:05”

		},   …

	]

See also:

    http://gap.alexandriaarchive.org/places/874699/books.json