This week I looked through the finding aids for the Rural Women's Collections in IWA online.  On paper, I mapped the counties where the different rural women lived in Iowa. 

I also started thinking about how the final interface mapping feature may work.  It would be interesting if we could mine the digitized archives for place names and link the references to a map.  The major barrier to this is that all of the documents would need to be transcribed or OCR'd.  I also created a customized search engine with Google that only searches the rural women's finding aids.  This may help us in the process of finding interesting collections or place names. 

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