AddressingHistory – Tracing the Past Stuart Macdonald AddressingHistory Project Manager Nicola Osborne Project Officer & EDINA Social Media Officer EDINA & Data Library AddressingHistory Launch - National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh - 17 November 2010
Presentation given by Stuart Macdonald at the AddressingHistory launch, 17 November 2010
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AddressingHistory – Tracing the Past
Stuart MacdonaldAddressingHistory Project Manager
Nicola OsborneProject Officer & EDINA Social Media Officer
EDINA & Data Library
AddressingHistory Launch - National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh - 17 November 2010
• JISC-funded Community Content project
• 6 months (April 2010 – September 2010)
• Partner with NLS
• Advisory Board
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• To create an online crowdsourcing tool which will combine data from digitised historical Scottish Post Office Directories (PODs) with contemporaneous historical maps
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Similar to Australian Historic Newspapers project provided by National Library of Australia where members of the public correct and improve OCR’d text of old newspapers
• Project will focus on 3 vols. of Edinburgh PODs: 1784-5; 1865; 1905-6
• Historic maps geo-referenced by NLS
• PODs digitised by NLS in conjunction with the Internet Archive
• Public domain
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• Upon registration the tool will allow ‘the crowd’ to geo-reference a POD entry by moving a ‘map pin’ on a digitised map
• Facilitates the addition of a grid reference to the OCR’d POD held in an XML database• Geo-coding of POD addresses parsed against Google geo-coder
• Interface has to be easy-to-use for a range of users
• Robust and scalable to accommodate 400 Scottish PODs currently being digitised
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• Crowdsourcing of mass geo-coded content
• Mechanism to check user-generated content such as geo-references, names, professions
• Edinburgh Beltane – beacon of partnership & CHSS knowledge transfer office
• Amplification of tool and API via Social Media Channels – Facebook, Google Groups, Twitter, Blog, Flickr
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• Our Blog has been our hub of activity throughout the project
• We’ve posted items on…
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• Scottish history events and fringe shows• Regular project progress reports• AddressingHistory Preview announcement• Press appearances • And various other items we think you might find interesting…
• We’ve also benefited from some fantastic guest bloggers…
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• Twitter has helped us find fantastic supporters, friends, and feedback
• It’s already led to articles, previewers, recommendations and those fantastic guest bloggers!
We’ve also been making friends on Facebook & encouraging those who Like us to share AddressingHistory!
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• We’ve a few new treats: – a new Flickr account– AddressingHistory badges for
your website or blog– Videos about the project
• We’ve also been having huge fun meeting people in person here, at Beltane events, at CILIPS, OKScotland, RepositoryFringe, IASSIST, RunCoCo, RSC Scotland Web 2 Forum, and Perth 800.
• And we hope you will help us by using and contributing edits to AddressingHistory and, most of all, by helping us keep this community of people and groups passionate about Scottish history to thrive.
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