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Great Britain Historical GIS Project: A Vision of Britain though Time Old Maps Online: Enabling global access to historical mapping Humphrey Southall and Petr Přidal (University of Portsmouth and Klokan Technologies GmbH)
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Great Britain Historical GIS Project:A Vision of Britain though Time
Old Maps Online:Enabling global accessto historical mapping
Humphrey Southall and Petr Přidal(University of Portsmouth
and Klokan Technologies GmbH)
Great Britain Historical GIS Project:A Vision of Britain though Time
19th April 2012
Funded via JISC:• Joint Information Systems Committee
– Of Higher Education Funding Councils forEngland, Scotland and Wales, plus Departmentfor Education of Northern Ireland
• Digital Content Programme 2011-1 3 has three strands:A.Digitisation and Open Educ. ResourcesB.Mass DigitisationC.Clustering Digital Content (HEFCE-only):
• ENGrich: visual teaching and learning resources in engineering (Liverp’l)• Integrated Broadside Ballads Archive (Oxford)• Linking Parliamentary Records through Metadata (Kings Coll London)• Manuscripts Online: Written Culture from 1000 to 1500 (Sheffield)• Old Maps Online (Portsmouth)• Online Veterinary Anatomy Museum (Royal Veterinary College)• Stepping into Time: WWII bombing maps (Portsmouth)
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Great Britain Historical GIS Project:A Vision of Britain though Time
19th April 2012
About the Old Maps Online Project• 15 months, Nov 2011-Jan 2013• Four partners:
– University of Portsmouth– Klokan Technologies GmbH– British Library– National Library of Scotland
• Main deliverables:– Building global search portal for geo-referenced maps– Helping UK map libraries geo-reference existing scans– Developing best practices for referencing maps
• Discussed at LIBER but not today
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Great Britain Historical GIS Project:A Vision of Britain though Time
19th April 2012
About the Old Maps Online Portal• Based on close partnership:• University of Portsmouth
– Run OMO server -- basic hosting funded until 2018– Control publication rights for metadata
• i.e. libraries license metadata to UK not-for-profit– Assemble metadata (except first version!)
• Klokan Technologies Gmbh– Develop software and free license to Portsmouth until 2018– Own oldmapsoline.org domain
• UoP own oldmapsonline.org.uk but this is not promoted– Set certain limitations to use of software
• Impossible to narrow search by collection• Maps in portal must be open access: no payment or passwords
– Payments for downloads and other value added services OK
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Project goals
The gateway to high-resolution online maps in libraries around the world
Intuitive search by location
Indexing maps from several institutions
One click to view the zoomable map
Free to access and open for contributions
Audience: general public, genealogists, historians, researchers, experts
How? We want to...Bring online visitors to the websites of participating institutions to view the maps
Promote the map libraries and their content
Do proper crediting: logo and links back
Store only minimal metadata & thumbnails
Make it easier to discover the scanned maps
Boost the number of online visits of maps
Allow users to find maps from “deep web”
Funding
Project actively developed with the support from JISC (UK) until January 2013
Basic maintenance covered until 2018
Google Ads to help cover the hosting costs
Participation on a future research projects for improvements of the technology and optimizations of the map management
Technology
Based on the MapRank Search technology http://www.mapranksearch.com/
Released in 2010 by Klokan Technologies for Swiss project Kartenportal.ch, improved for Czech libraries and for David Rumsey
Applicable on other large metadata catalogs + geospatial repositories.
Details in the article published in D-Lib: doi:10.1045/september2011-oehrli
We need your help...
Use the system & submit ideas for improvement and report bugs
Share: blog, twitter, facebook, google+
We are calling for institutions who would like to include their maps. It is for free. Institutions retain all the rights.
Submission of maps from individuals at later point (technically more problematic)
Requirements for inclusionHigh resolution (300dpi+ or 2 Megapixel+) maps with a zoomable viewer online
Permanent URL with direct access - no password or payment required
Metadata with DublinCore elements supplied in a spreadsheet (XLS). Later OAI-PMH harvesting.
Bounding box (MARC 034, DCMI BOX, ...)
http://project.oldmapsonline.org/contribute
Bounding box
034: $$dE0055700$$eE0102900$$fN0474800$$gN0454900255: $$cE 5°57'00"-E 10°29'00"/N 47°48'00"-N 45°49'00"
MARC: field 034
DCMI BOX: westlimit=5.9559; southlimit=45.818; eastlimit=10.4921; northlimit=47.8084
DublinCore: DCMI Box
ISO 19115 / FGDC
Bounding box encoding
BoundingBox Tool: Cataloguing while holding the physical maps - manual selection of an area(used by Swiss libraries, David Rumsey, ...)
Geoparser: Semi-automatic rapid process - with suggestion of the area by analyzing existing textual metadata.
BoundingBox Tool
Turns the scanned maps into geodata/GIS
Supports true collaborative editing in a web browser
3D visualization (GE) + analysis + overlays
Uses volunteers for metadata enrichment
Successful pilots in several institutions
Georeferencer Tool
Support for crowdsourcing:
Motivation, competition, rewarding, progress indicators, graphs - live widgets to include in the websites of the library
Runs as a service, no new software in-house
The scans are displayed from the original institution repository or websites*
Integration with the image gallery* (Zoomify, MrSID, Djatoka, IIPImage JPEG2000, ContentDM, DigiTool, Luna, etc.)
Georeferencer
Target: open platform for personal online research with maps
Development started and continues in collaboration with R&D department of Moravian Library in Brno, Czech Republic
Shared development costs with all participating institutions
Future: Annotations (LinkedData), detection of duplicates, support of map series, etc.
Georeferencer
