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Civil War Data 150 Jon Voss Freebase Meetup 4.14.10
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Civil War Data 150
Jon Voss Freebase Meetup 4.14.10
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• www.lookbackmaps.net • Started in 2008 as a Google MyMaps mashup • Based on the simple idea of creating community
around local history.• Created to solve the problem of disparate archives
with no geotags through community and crowdsourcing
screenshots from LookBackMaps iPhone app,overlay photos from The Bancroft Library
screenshots from LookBackMaps iPhone app,overlay photos from California Historical Society
The more shared data we have, the more we can do with it!
By end of 2009, group of archivists and technologists start exploring collaborative efforts utilizing Linked Data to connect isolated archives and datasets in order to: • join data in a robust, scalable, community-maintained
database• increase discovery of and traffic to the archives while
adding value to the data through crowdsourcing• make the data searchable and available to other web
applications via API and semantic web queries
The Civil War Data 150 Project
Born out of conversations with AMMP participant, Archives of Michigan.
Finding ways to discover and connect across state and federal resources.
Build presentations that utilize the Linked Data in new ways.
1. Clean up existing records
2. Examine schema to see how things fit.
See a sample list of Michigan regiments: http://www.freebase.com/view/base/americancivilwar/views/list_of_michigan_civil_war_units http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/military/military_unit?domain=%2Fmilitary
http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/4166330219/
3. Find images of soldiers, regiments, regimental flags, and battlefields to link into Freebase.
Help out on the Freebase wiki
Identifying great sources, looking at issues with schema, etc. http://wiki.freebase.com/w/index.php/CWD150
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email:[email protected]
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