[Historic] Introducing myself and Muninn

[Jeff Meyer]

Hi Rob -

Welcome to HOSM - you have just the type of information that might benefit
from storage in an OSM-style database and vice versa!

To quickly answer your questions - they are important!

* Imports? Yes, please! (emphatically) - HO will be very (very) import
friendly. It's pretty tough to do ground surveys of historical data in many
cases, eh? That said, nothing will prevent the use of traditional OSM
ground survey techniques and data entry to confirm or augment the
information in the database. The beauty is, there are a ton of existing OSM
import tools we should be able to leverage to make this easy in many cases.

* LinkedData? Yes, please, as well. I believe (and I'd like to get others'
opinions on this (and all) HO topics) HO will end up being a little more
academically-oriented than mainstream OSM. For instance, my guess is that
we'll want to use the source: tag a little more aggressively than OSM does,
and to provide the ability to have multiple sources for individual
attributes, for confirmation or dispute tracking. As such, supporting
emerging semantic web ontologies might provide a good opportunity for
increasing the value (and utility) of HO.

* What you didn't ask, but I think may be inherent in your question: how to
(or should we) map very temporary types of objects in HO or what should the
time interval / snapshot frequency be? I don't know, but we may want to
figure out some sort of rendering strategy that combines static base maps
with more animated overlays for higher frequency changes. I have no clue.
But! That's what we're here to discuss. Hopefully, we can set up something
that supports multiple approaches.

Would you be willing to talk a little more about your project & LinkedData
at the Hangout this week?

I love the idea of the phone network. Wouldn't it be cool to have an app
where you could listen to WW1 chatter by dialing a Skype number for the
Eastern Front? Hello TARDIS!

Thanks,
Jeff


On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Rob Warren <warren at muninn-project.org>wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I've been working on a linked open data project called Muninn [1] that
> deals with the First World War records. The majority of the geo data from
> the project is historical in nature and deals with things that either no
> longer exist or that have been repurposed.
>
> Examples include the REGINA allied trench that is now a farmer's field and
> a section of trenches near Vimy Ridge that have been since converted into a
> permanent memorial.
>
> Other interesting things include troop positions, battle lines, artillery
> fire plans, graves sites (temporary and permanent) and even a few telephone
> networks in use by the Canadian army on the western front.
>
> I'd like to get involved with HOSM, I will be online for the meeting this
> week but a few questions / thoughts for now:
>
> * The 'mainstream' OSM has long frowned upon automated imports. Most of
> the data I create involves a script and batch process; could we bend this
> rule in order to streamline some data exchange?
> * Currently, http://linkedgeodata.org/ provides a bridge from OSM to LOD.
> Could we consider a similar bridge / interface for this?
>
> best,
> rhw
>
>
> [1] http://blog.muninn-project.**org/ <http://blog.muninn-project.org/>
>
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