Welcome to Historical Maps Online
A workshop presented by the Australian and New Zealand Map Society
The Australian and New Zealand Map Society is proud to offer two workshops preceding GeoCart'2018.
The Historical Maps Online workshop will be held the morning of 4 September 2018 at the Victoria University of Wellington's School of Information Management. Chris Fleet, Map Curator of the National Library of Scotland will demonstrate using open-source tools and applications to put maps online and to create online map collections. This will cover such aspects as search and retrieval interfaces for maps and georeferenced viewers.
This half-day workshop precedes the ANZMapS Map Conservation workshop.
Overview
This workshop will cover:
- Creating search and retrieval interfaces for maps
- Selectable bounding box approaches
- Marker pin approaches
- (e.g. basic versions of http://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/ and http://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/marker/)
- Creating georeferenced viewers
- Overlays
- Transparency sliders
- Split-screen viewers
- 3D viewers
- Spy viewers
- Other examples (http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/)
Target Audience
This workshop is designed for individuals in charge of online collections of map images as well as those with an interest in the process.
Workshop Presenter
Chris worked at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, before joining the National Library of Scotland in 1994. His main focus at NLS has been on curating digital mapping.
Chris Fleet - Map Curator at the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
Chris worked at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth before joining the National Library of Scotland in 1994. His primary focus has been on curating digital mapping, including the electronic legal deposit of map datasets, as well as managing long-term projects to make historical maps available online. He pioneered negotiations with Ordnance Survey in the 1990s to receive and archive deposits of their large-scale digital mapping in UK Legal Deposit Libraries, a process which has expanded today to include the electronic deposit of other digital map datasets.
At NLS, Chris has been engaged in map digitisation and online delivery, which in the last decade has included developing the open-source web mapping applications and viewers for historical maps at https://maps.nls.uk. This popular website currently makes freely available over 200,000 high-resolution images of historical maps, the majority as georeferenced layers, using a variety of viewers and web services.
Chris has also been active in researching map history, especially Scottish mapping, having co-supervised several doctoral and masters students, curated exhibitions, given presentations, and published widely. He oversaw the Birlinn Great Atlas series of facsimile historical atlas publications, and is a co-author of Scotland: Mapping the Nation (2011), Edinburgh: Mapping the City (2014), and Scotland: Mapping the Islands (2016).
Chris Fleet - Map Curator at the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
Chris worked at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth before joining the National Library of Scotland in 1994. His primary focus has been on curating digital mapping, including the electronic legal deposit of map datasets, as well as managing long-term projects to make historical maps available online. He pioneered negotiations with Ordnance Survey in the 1990s to receive and archive deposits of their large-scale digital mapping in UK Legal Deposit Libraries, a process which has expanded today to include the electronic deposit of other digital map datasets.
At NLS, Chris has been engaged in map digitisation and online delivery, which in the last decade has included developing the open-source web mapping applications and viewers for historical maps at https://maps.nls.uk. This popular website currently makes freely available over 200,000 high-resolution images of historical maps, the majority as georeferenced layers, using a variety of viewers and web services.
Chris has also been active in researching map history, especially Scottish mapping, having co-supervised several doctoral and masters students, curated exhibitions, given presentations, and published widely. He oversaw the Birlinn Great Atlas series of facsimile historical atlas publications, and is a co-author of Scotland: Mapping the Nation (2011), Edinburgh: Mapping the City (2014), and Scotland: Mapping the Islands (2016).
Skill Level
It is assumed that most participants will be new to JavaScript, but you will be asked to complete tasks which will include instructions to write a little with JavaScript.
Venue
Historical Maps Online will be held in Room RH201 (2nd floor, Rutherford House) at Victoria University of Wellington's Pipitea Campus. This is located at 23 Lambton Quay in central Wellington.
Programme
The workshop will be held Tuesday, 4 September 2018.
Start time: 09:00
Finish time: 13:30
There will a break mid-morning for tea and coffee.
Registration Fee
Historical Maps Online is a free workshop. There is no registration fee.
Note: Tea & coffee is not included. Please bring $10 cash on the day (beverages will be pre-ordered from VicBooks Cafe).
Historical Maps Online
Includes:
- Workshop participation (4 Sept)
- Tea/coffee NOT included
Cancellations
In the event you are unable to attend the workshop, please notify the organisers immediately so your place may be allocated to another attendee.
Sponsors
ANZMapS would like to thank the Victoria University of Wellington School of Information Management for their generous sponsorship of the workshop facility.