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Wikimaps Wikimania 2013
This document discusses plans for developing the Wikimaps project, which aims to make historical maps available on Wikimedia platforms. It describes efforts to digitize and georeference maps from archives, add location data to maps on Wikimedia Commons, extract features from old maps to add to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, and develop tools to find maps and visualize historical data. The document also outlines upcoming workshops and sprints in Estonia, Hong Kong, and the US to advance this technical and collaboration work around historical maps between Wikimedia and cultural heritage organizations.
Wikimaps Wikimania 2013
- 1. WIKIMAPS Wikimania, Hong Kong,August 10, 2013 Wikimaps Tartu–Hong Kong Susanna Ånäs, Wikimedia Suomi susanna.anas@wikimedia.fi, @susannaanas, @WMFinland Map: Tartu linna plaan, 1914. Estonian National Archives
- 2. There are billionsof maps in the archives
- 3. In Wikimedia Commonsmaps look like this
- 5. This is howthey look like in archives
- 7. The maps needto be digitized And georeferenced Not restricted by copyright Served through user-friendly interfaces Referenced from Wikipedia Used anywhere Available for annotations Semantically linked Returned enriched to memory institutions Even millions of items should be handled easily
- 8. Visualizing scenes fromhistory or literature. Routing with historical restrictions, road networks. Linking places to their names across time and also to instances of maps that show them. Creating historical maps for Wikipedia. Geotagging historical photographs with the help of the historical maps from the same era. Exploration of networked historical topics. What could the maps be used for?
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- 19. GLAM cooperation Maps toCommons Adding geolocation to maps in Commons Finding maps on a map in Wikimedia Extracting features from old maps Spatiotemporal gazetteer in Wikidata Data driven maps in Wikimedia
- 20. GLAM cooperation Maps toCommons •Developing maps collaboration with GLAMs • Wikimaps Nordic: ~25 GLAMs in the Nordic countries •Creating a Template:Map • Jarek Tuszynski, Maarten Dammers •Applying the map template in the GLAM-wiki toolset • David Haskiya, Dan Entous / Europeana
- 24. Adding geolocation to mapsin Commons •Creating the Wikimaps Warper • Georeferencing files from the Commons • Further developing the MapWarper that has been created for the New York Public Library • Tim Waters, Tim Alder
- 28. Finding maps ona map in Wikimedia •Using the OSM tileserver that will be hosted by Wikimedia •Filtering by date, place, topic
- 29. Extracting features from oldmaps •Collaborating with the OpenStreetMap creating shared resources • iD editor in Open Historical Map (a project of OpenStreetMap) for digitizing (tracing) the old maps from the Commons • Storing geometries in OHM and/or Wikidata • Jeff Meyer, Mikel Maron et al
- 31. Spatiotemporal gazetteer in Wikidata •Connectinggeometries with Wikimedia through Wikidata •Developing the model for interlinking historical geodata and knowledge in Wikimedia • Change events, hierarchies, geometries, time • Handling uncertainty and imprecision • Historical geospatial data task force
- 32. Data driven mapsin Wikimedia •Developing maps and map data reuse possibilities in Wikimedia • Using OpenStreetMap as a base for maps • Further developing the work of the Wikimedia Maps Lab • Combining geometries and data from Wikimaps / Wikimedia & external sources • Hugo Lopez, Arun Ganesh
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- 34. Wikimaps workshop inState of the Map Baltics August 4, Tartu, Estonia Wikimaps roundtable in Wikimania August 7, Hong Kong Open Historical Map code sprint August 10 & 11, USA http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimaps/Wikimaps_Tartu–Hong_Konghttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimaps/Wikimaps_Tartu–Hong_Kong http://blog.wikimedia.fi/2013/08/wikimaps-around-the-world/http://blog.wikimedia.fi/2013/08/wikimaps-around-the-world/ http://wmfi.muistio.tieke.fi/8http://wmfi.muistio.tieke.fi/8 http://sk53-osm.blogspot.fi/2013/08/history-workshop-at-sotmbaltics.htmlhttp://sk53-osm.blogspot.fi/2013/08/history-workshop-at-sotmbaltics.html
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- 36. Plan der StadtDorpat 1892
- 37. What do wemean by start and end dates? CCBY-SAPekkaSarkola
- 38. Damages by bombing inTartu, 1941
- 39. infrastructural elements thatare gone from maps, but are actually there – strategical objects from Soviet era maps CCBY-SAPekkaSarkola
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- 46. Wikimaps workshop inState of the Map Baltics August 4, Tartu, Estonia Wikimaps roundtable in Wikimania August 7, Hong Kong Open Historical Map code sprint August 10 & 11, USA http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimaps/Requirementshttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimaps/Requirements
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- 50. Wikimaps workshop inState of the Map Baltics August 4, Tartu, Estonia Wikimaps roundtable in Wikimania August 7, Hong Kong Open Historical Map code sprint August 10 & 11, USA http://osmlab.github.io/birthday-sprint/http://osmlab.github.io/birthday-sprint/
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- 55. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimaps http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiprojekti_Historialliset_kartat https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikimaps/ Susanna Ånäs, WikimediaSuomi susanna.anas@wikimedia.fi, @susannaanas, @WMFinland