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AddressingHistory – Tracing the Past Stuart Macdonald AddressingHistory Project Manager

AddressingHistory – Tracing the Past Stuart Macdonald AddressingHistory Project Manager Nicola Osborne Project Officer & EDINA Social Media Officer EDINA & Data Library. AddressingHistory Launch - National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh - 17 November 2010.

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AddressingHistory – Tracing the Past Stuart Macdonald AddressingHistory Project Manager

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  1. AddressingHistory – Tracing the Past Stuart Macdonald AddressingHistory Project Manager Nicola Osborne Project Officer & EDINA Social Media Officer EDINA & Data Library AddressingHistory Launch - National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh - 17 November 2010

  2. JISC-funded Community Content project 6 months (April 2010 – September 2010) Partner with NLS Advisory Board CC image courtesy of Flickr – http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenhorton/3970883720/

  3. To create an online crowdsourcing tool which will combine data from digitised historical Scottish Post Office Directories (PODs) with contemporaneous historical maps Similar to Australian Historic Newspapers project provided by National Library of Australia where members of the public correct and improve OCR’d text of old newspapers CC image courtesy of Flickr – http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenhorton/4418947864/

  4. Project will focus on 3 vols. of Edinburgh PODs: 1784-5; 1865; 1905-6 Historic maps geo-referenced by NLS PODs digitised by NLS in conjunction with the Internet Archive Public domain CC image courtesy of Flickr – http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenhorton/4477409137/

  5. Upon registration the tool will allow ‘the crowd’ to geo-reference a POD entry by moving a ‘map pin’ on a digitised map • Facilitates the addition of a grid reference to the OCR’d POD held in an XML database • Geo-coding of POD addresses parsed against Google geo-coder CC image courtesy of Flickr – http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenhorton/4463849542/in/set-72157613482977550//

  6. Interface has to be easy-to-use for a range of users Robust and scalable to accommodate 400 Scottish PODs currently being digitised • Crowdsourcing of mass • geo-coded content • Mechanism to check • user-generated content • such as geo-references, • names, professions CC image courtesy of Flickr – http://www.flickr.com/photos/10413717@N08/2718212938/

  7. Edinburgh Beltane – beacon of partnership & CHSS knowledge transfer office Amplification of tool and API via Social Media Channels – Facebook, Google Groups, Twitter, Blog, Flickr CC image courtesy of Flickr – http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenhorton/4006519613//

  8. Our Blog has been our hub of activity throughout the project We’ve posted items on… Stamp image from Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ochsstamp.jpg • Scottish history events and fringe shows • Regular project progress reports • AddressingHistory Preview announcement • Press appearances • And various other items we think you might find interesting…

  9. We’ve also benefited from some fantastic guest bloggers… …and we welcome more! UK Stamp: 2nd Class, Scotland - CC image by Tom BKK.: http://www.flickr.com/photos/atomdocs/4272429557/

  10. Twitter has helped us find fantastic supporters, friends, and feedback It’s already led to articles, previewers, recommendations and those fantastic guest bloggers! Stamp image from Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierre_poivre_mauritius_postage_stamp_60_cents.jpg

  11. We’ve also been making friends on Facebook & encouraging those who Like us to share AddressingHistory! Stamp image from Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amatuerradiostamp.jpg

  12. We’ve a few new treats: a new Flickr account AddressingHistory badges for your website or blog Videos about the project We’ve also been having huge fun meeting people in person here, at Beltane events, at CILIPS, OKScotland, RepositoryFringe, IASSIST, RunCoCo, RSC Scotland Web 2 Forum, and Perth 800. And we hope you will help us by using and contributing edits to AddressingHistory and, most of all, by helping us keep this community of people and groups passionate about Scottishhistory to thrive. Art - Stamp Art - US - LOVE 1977 – CC image by Vintageprintable1: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vintageprintabledotcom/4967209674/

  13. Sustainability Google Analytics – measure access and usage of API & generation of User Generated Content Funding What next? CC Image by Karen Horton courtesy of Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenhorton/4491710248/

  14. AddressingHistory Online Tool & API –http://addressinghistory.edina.ac.uk NOW LIVE!

  15. THANKING YOU! Email: addressing.history@ed.ac.uk

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