THE WIKIMEDIA (FI) OLD MAPS PROJECT

or How to put together the bits and pieces that Wikimedia already has, to deal with the historical maps of the world

Susanna Ånäs, Wikimedia Suomi @ GLAM-Wiki 2013, British Librarysusanna.anas@wikimedia.fi, @susannaanas, @WMFinland

Map: Address and travel map of Helsinki 1879, C. H. Nummelin Helsinki Region Infoshare License: http://www.hri.fi/lisenssit/hri-nimea/

OLD MAPS ARE BEAUTIFUL

HOW TO MAKE USE OF OLD MAPS?

Old maps in a mobile for navigation

Map with a time slider for showing changes

Finding old place names, routes...

Wikipedia articles with maps from the period

THEY NEED TO BE DIGITIZED

AND GEOREFERENCED

NOT RESTRICTED BY COPYRIGHT

SERVED THROUGH USER-FRIENDLY INTERFACES

REFERENCED FROM WIKIPEDIA

USED ANYWHERE

AVAILABLE FOR ANNOTATIONS

PREFERABLY SEMANTICALLY LINKABLE

RETURNED ENRICHED TO MEMORY INSTITUTIONS

EVEN MILLIONS OF ITEMS SHOULD BE HANDLED EASILY

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CALL TO ACTION!COMBINE existing Wikimedia components to create a maps environment (Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, MediaWiki, OSM integration, GLAM-Wiki toolset)

LOCATE and further develop an open source georeferencing tool

ESTABLISH a Wikimedia Maps & geodata community

CONNECT with experts, enthusiasts and other open data actors

CREATE models for cartographic GLAM cooperation

DESIGN necessary user interfaces

INTEGRATE Linked Open Data efforts into this to the extent possible

WHAT WE HAVEARCHIVESNational Archives primary companion, more to follow

MAPS NA: 2 million maps from various repositories, 150 000 digitized and open

COMMUNITY Wikipedians, history of cartography academics and enthusiasts, open data activists (OKF, OSM), GIS experts

LABOUR Map curator, research on spatiotemporal linked data, students

COOPERATION Cross-chapter interest, Linked Data in Finland, Nordic focus?

WHO’S IN?

• http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiprojekti_Historialliset_kartat/In_english

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Multichill/Wikimaps

• Susanna Ånäs, Wikimedia Suomisusanna.anas@wikimedia.fi, @susannaanas, @WMFinland