AHRC: Palimpsest

Palimpsest: an Edinburgh Literary Cityscape aims to create a new, visualised literary cityscape, based on an extensive dataset of literary texts. This project has a focus on Edinburgh but the plan is for the techniques, methods and tools to apply to other UNESCO World Cities of Literature or indeed any literary city.

Palimpsest will be available to an online community of remote visitors, those with an interest in the literature of Scotland and its constituent places who explore the city and its culture from a distance. Palimpsest arises out of the idea of creating an innovative way of engaging people with literature, and drawing on literature’s own dependence on, and engagement with, place and space. Exploration of the relation between urban places and literature first arose in sociology in the mid 19th century.
 
 
 
Details on the announcement can be found here: http://sachi.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/2014/02/ahrc-investment-in-big-data-palimpsest/