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Sharing maps and plans online with the San Jose Public Library, California Room #4

Open emherzog opened 9 years ago

emherzog commented 9 years ago

The overall project is how do we digitize and share our map and street plan collection online. Digitization is also a passive conservation technique. When we digitize an item it no longer needs to be handled directly so for fragile unique items this means they have a longer life and more widespread use.

Steps:

  1. Digitization of maps/plans

    Purchase large format scanner

    Photographing and digitally stitching together non-scannable objects

    Increase network/server storage space

  2. Geo-reference maps/plans

    Coordinate volunteers to identify and tag geographic coordinates

    Enter data into the digital file

    Overlay the digital file with current open source maps

  3. Develop online platform for sharing files

    Use open source code to build our own platform

I have identified several local archives interested in digitizing their collection who do not have the resources to purchase their own equipment, train their staff, and sometimes do not have the space to house the necessary equipment. They would use our resources in order to preserve their collections, they would be interested in completing a range of steps (some would stop at step one, some would continue on to three).

We will need help with georeferencing, with building the online platform etc.

Others have done this: https://github.com/NYPL/building-inspector http://buildinginspector.nypl.org/general/data http://www.nypl.org/blog/2015/01/05/web-maps-primer

More to come.

Contact:

Erin Herzog erin.herzog@sjlibrary.org

jwmh commented 8 years ago

Would this be of any use, perhaps? http://chadnorwood.com/projects/gcm/ (it's also open-source on GitHub) -- not a total solution, but i think perhaps a vital component thereof....?

emherzog commented 8 years ago

I don't know, this is to show temporary events as they come and go, we are looking to show things permanently in space with a time component?

From: jwmh notifications@github.com Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2015 11:32 AM To: codeforsanjose/Project-Ideas Cc: Herzog, Erin M Subject: Re: [Project-Ideas] Sharing maps and plans online with the San Jose Public Library, California Room (#4)

Would this be of any use, perhaps? http://chadnorwood.com/projects/gcm/ (it's also open-source on GitHub)

[http://farm1.static.flickr.com/106/304395020_897b149434_m_d.jpg]http://chadnorwood.com/projects/gcm/

GCM - Google Calendar Map | Chad Things This is the Google Calendar Map (GCM) homepage, part of the mapFilter project on github. GCM is a way to view calendar events on a google map, see About for Read more...http://chadnorwood.com/projects/gcm/

-- not a total solution, but i think perhaps a vital component thereof....?

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