visualising brazil

Visualising BrazilExploring Images in the Digital Age

Aquiles Alencar-Brayner

@AquilesBrayner

www.bl.uk 2

British Library – crowdsourcing projects

• Microsoft project: 19thC books

• Mechanical Curator / Flickr Images

• Wikimedia Commons

• Geo-reference

• Old maps online

• Endangered Archives Programme

https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:British_Library/Mechanical_Curator_collection/Synoptic_index

http://www.bl.uk/maps/georeferencingmap.html

http://www.oldmapsonline.org/

http://eap.bl.uk/database/overview_project.a4d?projID=EAP030;r=12382

www.bl.uk 3

Other projects

• Stanford Spatial History: visualising Brazil

https://web.stanford.edu/group/spatialhistory/cgi-bin/site/viz.php?id=375&project_id=

visualising brazil

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