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Fulltext searchfail on maps.
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An easy-to-use gateway tohistorical maps in libraries
around the world.
OldMapsOnline.org
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OldMapsOnline.org
The gateway to high-resolution online maps in institutions around the world
Intuitive search by location
Indexing maps from several collections
One click to view the zoomable map
Free to access and open for contributions
Audience: general public, genealogists, historians, researchers, experts
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Zoom in or out, or drag the main map to move sideways, until you can clearly see the part of the world you want maps for.
You can also use the search field on the top to find a place or define the
time period of interest with the sliders.
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Our targets...Bring online visitors to the websites of participating institutions to view the maps
Promote the map libraries and their content
Do proper crediting: logo and links back
Store only minimal metadata & thumbnails
Make it easier to discover the scanned maps
Boost the number of online visits of maps
Allow users to find maps from “deep web”
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Funding
Project actively developed with the support from JISC (UK) until January 2013
Basic maintenance covered until 2018
Google Ads to help cover the hosting costs
Participation on a future research projects for improvements of the technology and optimizations of the map management
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TechnologyBased on the MapRank Search technology http://www.mapranksearch.com/
Released in 2010 by Klokan Technologies for Swiss project Kartenportal.ch, improved for Czech libraries and for David Rumsey
Designed for large metadata catalogs.
D-Lib: doi:10.1045/september2011-oehrli
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Technology
Data indexing implemented specifically to provide ranked real-time results even for large databases. Traditional R-Tree indexing or Lucene are failing.
Server component: FastCGI, C++
Default user interface developed with Closure JavaScript Library + Closure Compiler.
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Do you want to be a part?
Use the system & send us ideas for improvement and report bugs
Share: blog, twitter, facebook, google+
We are calling for institutions who would like to index their map metadata. It is for free. Institutions retain all the rights.
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How to contributeHigh resolution (300dpi+ or 2 Megapixel+) maps with a zoomable viewer online
Permanent URL with direct access - no password or payment required
Metadata with DublinCore elements supplied in a spreadsheet (XLS). Later OAI-PMH harvesting.
Bounding box (MARC 034, DCMI BOX, ...)
http://project.oldmapsonline.org/contribute
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Bounding box
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034: $$dE0055700$$eE0102900$$fN0474800$$gN0454900255: $$cE 5°57'00"-E 10°29'00"/N 47°48'00"-N 45°49'00"
MARC: field 034
DCMI BOX: westlimit=5.9559; southlimit=45.818; eastlimit=10.4921; northlimit=47.8084
DublinCore: DCMI Box
ISO 19115 / FGDC / OGC
Bounding box encoding
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BoundingBox Tool
How to create such records?
Georeferencer Tool+ Geoparser Tool
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BoundingBox Tool: Cataloguing while holding the physical maps - manual selection of the area on an online map(used by Swiss libraries, David Rumsey, ...)
Geoparser: Semi-automatic rapid process - with suggestion of the area by analyzing existing textual metadata.
BoundingBox Tool
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Enrichment of the online scanned maps
A tool which runs in a web browser
Uses volunteers for metadata enrichment
3D visualization, Accuracy, Geodata, BBOX
Successful pilots in several institutions
Georeferencer Tool
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britishlibrary.georeferencer.com
www.georeferencer.com
http://player.vimeo.com/video/36419466
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Powered by crowdsourcing:
Motivation, competition, rewarding, progress indicators, graphs - live widgets to include in the websites of the library
Runs as a service, no new software in-house
The scans are displayed from the original institution repository or websites*
Integration with the web of institution* (Zoomify, MrSID, Djatoka, IIPImage JPEG2000, ContentDM, DigiTool, Luna, etc.)
Georeferencer
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Competitive Crowdsourcing
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OldMapsOnline Launch
Project announced in the end of February in New York and London
Over 30.000 visitors per day on the website after the launch
Over 250.000 visitors since the beginning of the project
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Publicity
Social Networks: Twitter, Facebook
Google Developer Showcase + Google I/O 2012
BBC History magazine online slideshow
La Stampa (Milan, Italy) newspaper
Gizmodo, Ars Technica, The Verge
Wired.jp (Japan), About.com Genealogy, Playtech.r (Romania), Portsmouth News (UK), ... TV spot in Catalonya: link