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Report of the cooperation between Wikimedia Finland and the Finnish National Archives on historical maps + a call to action to cerate a maps environment within Wikimedia.
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THE WIKIMEDIA (FI) OLD MAPS PROJECT
or How to put together the bits and pieces that Wikimedia already has, to deal with the historical maps of the world
Susanna Ånäs, Wikimedia Suomi @ GLAM-Wiki 2013, British [email protected], @susannaanas, @WMFinland
Map: Address and travel map of Helsinki 1879, C. H. Nummelin Helsinki Region Infoshare License: http://www.hri.fi/lisenssit/hri-nimea/
OLD MAPS ARE BEAUTIFUL
HOW TO MAKE USE OF OLD MAPS?
Old maps in a mobile for navigation
Map with a time slider for showing changes
Finding old place names, routes...
Wikipedia articles with maps from the period
THEY NEED TO BE DIGITIZED
AND GEOREFERENCED
NOT RESTRICTED BY COPYRIGHT
SERVED THROUGH USER-FRIENDLY INTERFACES
REFERENCED FROM WIKIPEDIA
USED ANYWHERE
AVAILABLE FOR ANNOTATIONS
PREFERABLY SEMANTICALLY LINKABLE
RETURNED ENRICHED TO MEMORY INSTITUTIONS
EVEN MILLIONS OF ITEMS SHOULD BE HANDLED EASILY
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CALL TO ACTION!COMBINE existing Wikimedia components to create a maps environment (Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, MediaWiki, OSM integration, GLAM-Wiki toolset)
LOCATE and further develop an open source georeferencing tool
ESTABLISH a Wikimedia Maps & geodata community
CONNECT with experts, enthusiasts and other open data actors
CREATE models for cartographic GLAM cooperation
DESIGN necessary user interfaces
INTEGRATE Linked Open Data efforts into this to the extent possible
WHAT WE HAVEARCHIVESNational Archives primary companion, more to follow
MAPS NA: 2 million maps from various repositories, 150 000 digitized and open
COMMUNITY Wikipedians, history of cartography academics and enthusiasts, open data activists (OKF, OSM), GIS experts
LABOUR Map curator, research on spatiotemporal linked data, students
COOPERATION Cross-chapter interest, Linked Data in Finland, Nordic focus?
WHO’S IN?
• http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiprojekti_Historialliset_kartat/In_english
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Multichill/Wikimaps
• Susanna Ånäs, Wikimedia [email protected], @susannaanas, @WMFinland
