https://www.caktusgroup.com/tags/scraping/Recent content in Scraping on Caktus GroupHugoenFri, 16 Dec 2011 13:30:19 +0000https://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2011/12/16/openblock-geocoder-part-2-text-parsing-and-entity-extraction/Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:30:19 +0000https://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2011/12/16/openblock-geocoder-part-2-text-parsing-and-entity-extraction/<p>This is the second post in our <a href="https://github.com/openrural" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">OpenRural</a> series reviewing <a href="http://openblockproject.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">OpenBlock</a> and it's geocoder. <a href="http://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2011/12/12/openblock-geocoder-part-1-data-model-and-geocoding/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">OpenBlock Geocoder, Part 1: Data Model and Geocoding</a> covers the internals of the OpenBlock geocoder and it's geocoding capabilities. As this posts builds upon topics covered there, you may wish to read Part 1 before proceeding. In this post we step back from the internals of the geocoder and explore how to use it along with other OpenBlock tools to parse unstructured text.</p>https://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2011/12/06/scraping-data-and-web-standards/Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:00:00 +0000https://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2011/12/06/scraping-data-and-web-standards/<p>We're currently involved in a project with the <a href="http://jomc.unc.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">UNC School of Journalism</a> that hopes to help rural newspapers in North Carolina leverage <a href="http://openblockproject.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">OpenBlock</a>.  The project is called OpenRural, and if you're a software developer you can find the latest code <a href="https://github.com/openrural/openrural-nc" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">on GitHub</a>.</p>