1. Bernhard Haslhofer (University ofVienna)
OKCon - Open Knowledge Conference 2013, Geneva
The Story behind Maphub

2. People love maps...

3. Source: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

4. Source: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
How can we enable people to
participate and engage?

5. Source: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Plan of Geneva in 1841. The
colossal star fortifications,
among the most important in
Europe, were demolished in
1850.
Annotations!

6. Which map collection?

8. “[...] These images [...] are
restricted to items that are not
covered by copyright protection”

9. http://maphub.github.io

11. Semantic Tagging in Maphub
There is a DBpedia/Wikipedia URI
behind each visual tag
http://dbpedia.org/resource/
Mediterranean_sea
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13. http://
maphubdev.mminf.univie.ac.at/
annotations/1
oa:
Annotation
rdf:type
oa:hasTarget
uuid:1235
oa:annotator
http://maphubdev.
mminf.univie.ac.at
oa:generator
"behas"
foaf:name
"bernhard.haslhofer@
cornell.edu"
foaf:mbox
"2012-07-18T02:
01:07Z"
oa:generated
"2012-07-18T02:
01:07Z"
oa:annotated
uuid:4567
http://
samos.mminf.univie.ac.
at/maps/raw/
g3200.ct000725C.jp2
oa:Specific
Resource
rdf:type
oa:hasSource uuid:2752
oa:hasSelector
ct:ContentAs
Textrdf:type
image/svg
dcterms:
format
dcterms:StillImage
rdf:type
image/jp2
dc:format
oa:hasBody
uuid:2751
cnt:Content
AsText
rdf:type
"text/plain"
dc:format
In antiquity, the Strait of Gibraltar (which
connects the Atlantic Ocean with the
Mediterranean Sea) was also known by the
name "The Pillars of Hercules". This is the
reason for this inscription!
cnt:chars
dbpedia:
Strait_of_Gibraltar
oax:hasSemanticTag
dbpedia:
Pillars_of_Hercules
oax:hasSemanticTag
<svg…..>ct:chars
uuid:2753
oa:hasSelector
ct:ContentAs
Text
rdf:type
application/wkt
dcterms:
format
POLYGON((5315
5639,5444….)
ct:chars

14. Source: Nationaalarchief / Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationaalarchief/4900465601

15. What are the effects of
semantic tagging?

18. Summary

21. Thanks !
@bhaslhofer
http://slideshare.net/bhaslhofer
http://bernhardhaslhofer.info
http://maphub.github.io
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