Visualising BrazilExploring Images in the Digital Age

Aquiles Alencar-Brayner

@AquilesBrayner

www.bl.uk 2

British Library – crowdsourcing projects

• Microsoft project: 19thC books

• Mechanical Curator / Flickr Images

• Wikimedia Commons

• Geo-reference

• Old maps online

• Endangered Archives Programme

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Other projects

• Stanford Spatial History: visualising Brazil