Maps & Digital Humanities
Susanna Ånäs, Wikimedia Suomi (Aalto ARTS)

My background: Wikimaps

1. Assist archives in bringing historical maps to Wikimedia Commons

2. Create a
maker space of digital tools
to extract information from them

3. Create
narratives
from interconnected resources

Transformative workflows
New York Public Library Labs

mapwarping
MapWarper, Georeferencer.

tracing
OpenHistoricalMap

crowdsourced validation and correction
Building Inspector

places from text
The Edinburgh Geoparser

gazetteer
NYC Chronology of Place, Pleiades, Histograph

modelling time and space
The Finnish Spatio-Temporal Ontology, Topotime

crowdsourcing and tools
British Library Maps, Georeferencer

managing collections
NYPL Space/Time Directory, MapScholar, Omeka

telling stories
Neatline, StoryMap.js

communities

Moving Historical Geodata to the Web
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