geoseo and map series - discovery integrated with geographical search in map catalogs
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Petr Pridal <[email protected]> !
9th International Workshop on Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage, ICA
Budapest, 4-5 September 2014
GeoSEO and Map Series Discovery Integrated With Geographical
Search in Map Catalogs
High-resolution historical maps covering the whole world
150.000+ maps
(soon 450.000+ maps - with USGS and NOAA)
Partners
.. and more are joining
During the last 36 months we have helped over
1.380.000 online visitors
to discover old maps
We have encouraged all libraries holding maps
to think about their metadata in a geographical context.
BoundingBox Tool http://boundingbox.klokantech.com/
Geographical SearchingIntuitive. Map-driven. Modern web interface.
Advanced ranking. Fast.
Searching library catalogs and map databases embedded in your website
from 2000 EUR.
Old Maps Online participation for FREE.
what’s next…
More maps: institutions + individuals + project cooperation + crawling bots
Linked Data: Unique linkable identifiers + metadata + IIIF thumbs. Schema.org tags (microdata). Possibly JSON-LD.
GeoSEO: Google indexing to serve phrases such as “Old maps of <place>”, etc.
Analytics: Vistor stats for institutions
Admin interface: For institutions
what’s next…
Touch interface: Tablets and mobiles 20%
Georeferencer: Turning scans into true maps, collaboratively in a web browser. Online service. Platform to access online high-res imagery - IIIF / WMS / WMTS.
Transcription: Extracting and linking information depicted on the maps
Vectorisation: OSM tools + cooperation with Open Historical Map
what’s next…
GeoSEO
Google indexing
1-3 position on Google for “old maps” phrase
The geographical search interface uses AJAX, it is only one page for Google bots :-(
The project must expose the metadata in a way indexable by traditional full-text search engine
Phrases such as the “Old maps of Edinburgh”, “Old maps of British Isles”, “of ...”, ...
World coverage, high quality geodata required
Linked geodata
Natural Earth Data - possible export as RDF/LinkedData in future
DEMO
Map Series
Ideas for cooperation?
Old Maps Onlinewww.oldmapsonline.org
SME project partner Custom development + design of web interfaces
Open source integrations Applied research with cutting edge web technologies
Open-source projects: IIPImage IIIF JPEG2000, OpenLayers, Leaflet, Omeka, WebGL Earth, GDAL, EPSG.io, …
Contracted development and open source integrations
GeoreferencerMapTiler