Report of the cooperation between Wikimedia Finland and the Finnish National Archives on historical maps + a call to action to cerate a maps environment within Wikimedia.

1. THE WIKIMEDIA (FI) OLD MAPS PROJECT
or
How to put together the bits and pieces that Wikimedia already has, to deal with
the historical maps of the world
Susanna Ånäs, Wikimedia Suomi @ GLAM-Wiki 2013, British Library
susanna.anas@wikimedia.fi, @susannaanas, @WMFinland
Map: Address and travel map of Helsinki 1879, C. H. Nummelin Helsinki Region Infoshare License: http://www.hri.fi/lisenssit/hri-nimea/

2. OLD MAPS ARE
BEAUTIFUL

10. HOW TO MAKE USE
OF OLD MAPS?

11. Old maps in a mobile
for navigation

12. Map with a time slider
for showing changes

13. Finding old place
names, routes...

14. Wikipedia articles with
maps from the period

15. THEY NEED TO BE DIGITIZED
AND GEOREFERENCED
NOT RESTRICTED BY COPYRIGHT
SERVED THROUGH USER-FRIENDLY INTERFACES
REFERENCED FROM WIKIPEDIA
USED ANYWHERE
AVAILABLE FOR ANNOTATIONS
PREFERABLY SEMANTICALLY LINKABLE
RETURNED ENRICHED TO MEMORY INSTITUTIONS
EVEN MILLIONS OF ITEMS SHOULD BE HANDLED EASILY

17. GLAM Wikimedia
Commons

18. GWtool
GLAM Wikimedia
Commons
Upload

19. GWtool
GLAM Wikimedia
Commons
Upload
Wikimaps

20. GWtool
GLAM Wikimedia
Commons Georeference
Upload
Wikimaps

21. GWtool
GLAM Wikimedia
Commons Georeference
Upload
Wikimaps

22. GWtool
GLAM Wikimedia
Commons Georeference
Upload
Wikimaps
Annotate

23. GWtool
GLAM Wikimedia
Commons Georeference
Upload
Wikimaps
Wikidata Annotate
Structured
data

24. Serve
GWtool Wikipedia +
GLAM Wikimedia
Commons Georeference
Upload
Wikimaps
Wikidata Annotate
Structured
data

25. Serve
GWtool Wikipedia +
GLAM Wikimedia
Commons Georeference
Upload
Wikimaps
Wikidata Annotate
Export
Structured
data

26. Serve
GWtool Wikipedia +
GLAM Wikimedia
Commons Georeference
Upload
Enrich Wikimaps
Wikidata Annotate
Export
Structured
data

27. CALL TO ACTION!
COMBINE existing Wikimedia components to create a maps environment
(Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, MediaWiki, OSM integration, GLAM-Wiki
toolset)
LOCATE and further develop an open source georeferencing tool
ESTABLISH a Wikimedia Maps & geodata community
CONNECT with experts, enthusiasts and other open data actors
CREATE models for cartographic GLAM cooperation
DESIGN necessary user interfaces
INTEGRATE Linked Open Data efforts into this to the extent possible

28. WHAT WE HAVE
ARCHIVES
National Archives primary companion, more to follow
MAPS
NA: 2 million maps from various repositories, 150 000 digitized and open
COMMUNITY
Wikipedians, history of cartography academics and enthusiasts, open data
activists (OKF, OSM), GIS experts
LABOUR
Map curator, research on spatiotemporal linked data, students
COOPERATION
Cross-chapter interest, Linked Data in Finland, Nordic focus?

29. WHO’S IN?

31. • http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Wikipedia:Wikiprojekti_Historialliset_kartat/In_english
• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Multichill/Wikimaps
• Susanna Ånäs, Wikimedia Suomi
susanna.anas@wikimedia.fi, @susannaanas, @WMFinland