University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Old maps and open data networks

Haslhofer, Bernhard; Newman, Keith; Stefanik, Amanda; Robitza, Werner; Lagoze, Carl

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/42105

Description

Title
Old maps and open data networks
Author(s)
  • Haslhofer, Bernhard
  • Newman, Keith
  • Stefanik, Amanda
  • Robitza, Werner
  • Lagoze, Carl
Issue Date
2013-02
Keyword(s)
  • historical maps
  • annotations
  • linked data
  • GIS
  • cultural informatics
  • information organization
  • knowledge management
  • social and community informatics
Abstract
Old maps are a record of the past, exposing features people might want to tell stories about. Maphub is a Web application that enables them to do so by creating annotations on digitized high-resolution historical maps. By semantically tagging regions on the map, users create associations between their annotations and resources in open Web-based data networks. These associations are leveraged to enable multilingual search and to generate overlays of historical maps on modern mapping applications. Contributed annotations are shared on the Web following the W3C Open Annotation specification. Preliminary studies show general user satisfaction with our approach.
Publisher
iSchools
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/42105
DOI
https://doi.org/10.9776/13400
Copyright and License Information
Copyright © 2013 is held by the authors. Copyright permissions, when appropriate, must be obtained directly from the authors.

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