Digital humanities scholars map lost art in novels

Digital humanities scholars map lost art in novels

Books with maps are like Captain Flint's buried loot in Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island"—a rare find, according to new Cornell research.

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Cornell University: Digital humanities scholars chart lost art of maps in novels. “Digital humanities scholars from the Cornell Ann S. Bowers of Computing and Information Science have developed a computational system to mine maps from nearly 100,000 digitized books from the 19th and early 20th centuries, discovering that just 1.7% of novels include maps, mostly at the beginning or end, among other findings.”The post Cornell University: Digital h…