This group has been created to explore the creation of an inclusive open-source historical mapping community, with a focus on Early Modern London, Early Modern England and Wales, Ireland and Scotland, and their relations with the wider world. It is an initiative of the MarineLives project team. The MarineLives project was launched in 2012 to work collaboratively on the transcription, linkage and enrichment of the legal records of the English High Court of Admiralty. We welcome academics and non-academics to contribute to this group, which is hosted on the Humanities Commons platform, and to advance a culture of exchange of data sets, map layers, polygons, georeferenced data and methodologies.
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Elton Barker deposited Journeying through Space and Time with Pausanias’s Description of Greece in the group
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months agoSometime in the second century CE, Pausanias of Magnesia (modern-day Turkey) wrote the Description of Greece. Ostensibly a tour of the places to see on the Greek mainland, the Description also provides historical accounts related to the topography through which Pausanias moves. Little attention has been given to how these building blocks of…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Job: Mapping and Geospatial Project Specialist (Humanities Focus) in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThe Research Data and Digital Scholarship team at University of Pennsylvania Libraries is looking for a mapping geospatial project specialist to work primarily on digital humanities and digital scholarship projects, as well as to work with the existing librarian for mapping and geospatial data to foster a mapping-curious community on campus. Sound…[Read more]
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Elton Barker deposited Pelagios – Connecting Histories of Place. Part I: Methods and Tools in the group
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis article provides a short history of the methods and tools developed by the Pelagios initiative: a series of seven projects dedicated to linking digital historical resources based on the geographic places to which they relate and refer. The first section of the article situates the work within the wider field of semantic and geospatial…[Read more]
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Ceyda Elgul deposited Lives in Turkish: A Database of Biography in the group
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months ago“Lives in Turkish” is an ongoing research project held at Boğaziçi University Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies. We trace the journey of life-writing in Turkish, collect metadata and visuals about biographical publications and biography subjects introduced to the Turkish reader since the early 1800s. Our aim is to propose a c…[Read more]
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Kalle Westerling started the topic Opportunity: Digital Humanities Research Institute, June 15–24, 2020 in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoDo you want to become a DHRI Community Leader?
Apply now and join us from June 15-24, 2020.
You are invited to apply for the second Digital Humanities Research Institute (DHRI), which will take place at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. This ten-day institute will introduce participants to core digital humanities skills, and help…[Read more] -
Roger Gillis deposited Historic Nova Scotia: Briding the Gap with Digital Storytelling in the group
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoHistoric Nova Scotia is a digital humanities and public history project that aims to bring community histories to life online (https://historicnovascotia.ca/). This paper will explore how collaborative, digital-storytelling can help bridge the gap between heritage theory and practice. We will provide an overview of the project followed by specific…[Read more]
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Ferran Escriva-Llorca deposited CFP: The Mediterranean: Migrant Sounds in the group
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoOn June 17, 2018, the Aquarius, a boat carrying refugees, docked in Valencia. The wave of solidarity that ran through the city and neighboring towns in response to this arrival was intermingled with ignorance of a phenomenon—migration across the Mediterranean Sea—that has been a historical constant, and which indexes both the aspirations and fea…[Read more]
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Dominik Hagmann deposited 3D-Dokumentation des sog. Hexenturms von Schloss Ulmerfeld, NÖ in the group
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoPaper about the archaeological documentation of the so-called Hexenturm of Ulmerfeld Castle using MAP (mast aerial photography) as well as IBM (image based modeling) and the combined application of commercial as well as open source software image processing software.
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Jasper van Putten started the topic Invitation to submit projects to be featured on Mapping to Print website in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoDear all,
I would like to invite scholars ‘who map print‘ to send me links to their online projects and be featured—with link, brief description, and screen shot—on this website: Mapping Print http://openprintstudio.com/wiki/doku.php/mapping_print_project
The Mapping Print project brings together online projects that trace the history of print…[Read more]
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Colin Greenstreet started the topic Maphackathon Zotero bibliographical group in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe maphackathon organising group have created a maphackathon Zotero bibliographical group. The group library is available for all to view, but to contribute and to edit you will need to be an invited member.
We would be delighted if members of the Humanities Commons Open-Source Historical Mapping group, the Digital Humanists group and the Linked…[Read more]
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Colin Greenstreet started the topic Mapping the sounds of the Early Modern Thames shoreline – Treadmill cranes in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThe Agas map of London, published c. 1633, but showing London c. 1550-1560, shows a series of cranes at different places along the Thames north shore, both above and below London Bridge. These cranes appear to be treadmill cranes. An example of a large treadmill crane, powered by four men in a treadmill at one side of the crane, can be seen in…[Read more]
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Colin Greenstreet replied to the topic Use of pinterest as a discovery tool for map and image mapping sources in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoSix days since launching the Thamesshore line #maphackathon Pinterest board we have 353 Pins and 10 Followers
images of Thames and Thames shoreline C17th to early C20th between London Bridge and Woolwich
images of Thames north and south shore parishes between London Bridge and WoolwichMajor sources of pins so far are:
ballastquay.com…[Read more]
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John Levin started the topic High Quality 17th and 18th century maps of London in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis is a list of high quality, freely downloadable, freely reuseable maps of seventeenth and eighteenth century London, suitable for georectification and for use in the map hackathon. I will be working on geo-rectifying these over Christmas, but doubt I will get all done.
An exact survey of … London after the Great Fire
From the New York…[Read more]
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Colin Greenstreet started the topic Use of pinterest as a discovery tool for map and image mapping sources in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoI kicked off a MarineLives experiment today by creating a #maphackathon pinterest board, and publicising it on Twitter. It will be interesting to see if it acquires any followers and develops a creative life or is just a “good idea” which goes nowhere. As of 12.21 Wedneday December 7th 2016 it had eleven pins (all seeded by me) and had acquired…[Read more]
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Colin Greenstreet replied to the topic Spatial experiment at #maphackathon, Feb 10/11 2017 (TBC) in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoProvisional goal of #maphackathon spatial experiment:
To build a river-centric analysis of commercial life in C17th and early C18th London and surrounds, using diverse text, numeric, visual and map data sources supplied or hacked by #maphackathon attendees. Visualisations to combine topographical, occupational and event/movements data; c…[Read more]
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Colin Greenstreet replied to the topic CFP of potential interest to the group in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoPosted the CFP to @marinelivesorg Twitter account. As of 13.34 UK time, Tues Dec 6th 2016 seven Retweets
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Colin Greenstreet started the topic Linked open data from MarineLives semantic media wiki for experimentation in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThe MarineLives project uses a semantic media wiki as its platform to view and transcribe manuscript images, to annotate transcribed pages, and to create semantic biographies. All semantic biographies contain geographical location data. For example, semantic biographies for the hamlet of Limehouse in the parish of Stepney in the county of Middlesex…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic CFP of potential interest to the group in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoCoordinates: Digital Mapping and 18th C Visual, Material, and Built Cultures
Art history’s digital turn has been stimulated by the possibilities of spatial research. Spurred by the collection, preservation, and distribution of art historical data in digital space—practices that have both collapsed and expanded our own discursive geog…[Read more] -
Colin Greenstreet replied to the topic Spatial experiment at #maphackathon, Feb 10/11 2017 (TBC) in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAccess to full set of Tweets as we shape the #maphackathon
Twitter is a powerful tool and we are using it actively to shape the proposed #maphackathon
Click here to access the top #maphackathon tweets and images.
Click here to access the full set of #maphackathon tweets and images.
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