GeoSEO and Map Series - Discovery Integrated With Geographical Search in Map Catalogs

www.oldmapsonline.org www.mapranksearch.com

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/

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