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Stuart Macdonald AddressingHistory Project Manager EDINA & Data Library University of Edinburgh

Stuart Macdonald AddressingHistory Project Manager EDINA & Data Library University of Edinburgh http://edina.ac.uk/projects/addressinghistory_summary.html. JISC-funded Community Content project 6 months (April 2010 – September 2010) Partner with NLS Advisory Board.

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Stuart Macdonald AddressingHistory Project Manager EDINA & Data Library University of Edinburgh

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  1. Stuart Macdonald AddressingHistory Project Manager EDINA & Data Library University of Edinburgh http://edina.ac.uk/projects/addressinghistory_summary.html

  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 Scottish Post Office Directories (PODs) with contemporaneous historical maps CC image courtesy of Flickr – http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenhorton/4418947864/

  4. Project will focus on 3 volumes of PODs: 1784-5; 1865; 1905-6) Historic maps georeferenced 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. Tool will allow ‘the crowd’ to georeference POD entries by ‘clicking’ • on a digitised map facilitating the addition of a grid reference to the OCR’d POD held in XML format in a database structure • Sympathetic to tools • developed by related projects • incl. VUG, Edinburgh town atlas • Tool built using open standards for • interoperability with potential hosting • infrastructures e.g NLS CC image courtesy of Flickr – http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenhorton/4463849542/in/set-72157613482977550//

  6. Potential for linking with other spatially referenced resources e.g census Scoping mass geo-coding of PODs using OS Codepoint, Yahoo and Google geocoding services Also build APIs to exploit the value-added content Explore exposing content to LOD via RDF triples CC images courtesy of Flickr – http://www.flickr.com/photos/86624586@N00/10191871/

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

  8. Edinburgh Beltane – beacon of partnership & CHSS Knowledge Transfer office Amplification of tool and APIs via Social Media Channels Open knowledge evangelists – spread the gospel according to AddressingHistory! CC image courtesy of Flickr – http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenhorton/4006519613//

  9. THANKING YOU! • Acknowledgements: • JISC -http://www.jisc.ac.uk/ • National Library of Scotland - http://www.nls.uk/ • Visualising Urban Geographies (VUG) • project –http://geo.nls.uk/urbhist/ • Edinburgh City Libraries – • http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/libraries/

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