MapIt1418
Mapping Collective History Together

a few statements
to start with

since early
times,
we’ve
wanted to
know
where
things
were and
when
Antikythera Mechanism

the older things are, the less
we know about their origin

Images for the Future
• Saves audiovisual heritage through
conservation and digitization.
• Makes digital material available for
educational purposes, for the general
public and for the creative industry.
• Innovates the heritage sector by sharing
knowledge and experience

IFTF =
• National Archive
• Knowledgeland
• Sound and Vision
• Filmmuseum
• Vereniging Openbare Bibliotheken
• Centrale Discotheek Rotterdam

IFTF =
• National Archive
• Knowledgeland
• Sound and Vision
• Filmmuseum
• Vereniging Openbare Bibliotheken
• Centrale Discotheek Rotterdam

• National Archive: 1.2 million photos:
• digitisation & metadata generation
•  broad availability!
• Professionals & volunteers
• Making use of the crowd

monitoring
“interestingness”

top 10 “interestingness”
4 out of 10:
World War 1 photos

Mapping Collective History,
Together: MapIt1418
• Most “interesting” (whatever that may be)
• Of all NA photos on Flickr, the WW1 collection
gets the most views, comments & tags
• Geographical data are mostly unknown
• Activate WW1 communities to add
geographical data to the collection

MapIt1418: big leap for
archive, not for mankind
• ‘mashing up’ data streams from Flickr & OSM
• people can put photos on map, thus adding
data to Flickr
• add own stories, add photos of ‘now’ situations

So, why OSM?
we like:
• openness
• benefits for the sector: re-usability
• portability
• its social ecosystem
• temporal quality: up-to-date
• customisation (possible phase II of MapIt1418)
• Map content
• Cartographic visualisation

Developing MapIt1418
• Not a typical OSM-example
• Not a map-savvy organisation
• Not a map-savvy audience

Mitigation
• Thorough functional design
• Interaction design
• Graphic design

Developing MapIt1418
• “Classic” example of mash-up
• OpenStreetMap
• Flickr
• Re-mashable: KML/GeoRSS

Bringing it together
• Flickr API
• OpenLayers
• Fusebox: PHP framework
• MySQL

let’s have a look
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mapit1418.nl (live August 21)
thanks!
Questions?
te@kl.nl /
judith.moortgat@nationaalarchief.nl /
edward@webmapper.net