[OHM] Monthly hangout - quick notes

[Susanna Ånäs]

Karl:

This type of workflow is what is the goal for the Wikimaps environment. Set
up tasks/groups/challenges/projects that can include scanning, gathering
material and digitizing/vectorizing and people who are contributed to the
task. I think a version of the Tasking Manager of HOT might be suitable for
this (the mapping part) and I suppose there have been discussions about it.
The question remains, in which environment should this "Maker space" be set
up, or can it be part of many in a networked manner.

I am going to work towards setting up such a group tasking feature in
Wikimaps in some timescale after establishing the environment first. There
will be priorities and funding issues that set the pace.

Cheers,
Susanna

2014-12-03 8:00 GMT+02:00 Karl Grossner <karlg at stanford.edu>:

> Greetings all,
>
> I too am interested in participating in OHM's development, not sure
> exactly how yet. I was at the NYPL meeting along with Susanna and Tim.
> Posted some notes about it on my blog the other day (
> http://kgeographer.org). I've got a scheme in mind for something called
> The Orbis Initiative, which is an outgrowth from the
> http://orbis.stanford.edu I've been involved with. The idea is to
> collectively stitch together a global historical transport network. It
> needs data scanned from old maps of course, and it needs to come together
> with its intended uses in mind, which are academic research and ultimately
> teaching too. That said, the data might be cool for gaming development too.
> I most definitely want to feed data from it into OHM over time, and maybe
> data goes the other way too.
>
> I do think it will be a 'community-sourced' thing as opposed to pure
> crowd-sourced. And split into area/period sub-projects. Something like:
> let's scan and trace these 4 early modern Europe road maps, or these 8 silk
> road maps. Then people who are especially interested in an area/period can
> join a like-minded mini-community to build out that piece. I'm trying to
> locate funding for it and a fair number of people have expressed interest
> in getting involved (with data, not $$).
>
> Very interested to hear what OHMers think of all that...
>
> cheers
> Karl
>
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> Karl Grossner
> Digital Humanities Research Developer
> Stanford University Libraries
> Stanford,CA US
> www.kgeographer.org
>
>
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>
> I suppose I sound like a broken record, but it always strikes me as
> bizarre when these hangouts are discussed after the fact on this list when
> there's no advance notice or reminder that they're going to happen. I
> joined the one back in May when I knew about it...
>
> And regarding
>
> * UNFILLED MAP JOB:
>> https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/24983?t=4w5iyb
>>
>
> my takeaway from a somewhat dismissive phone chat is that they have one
> person, or at least a very restricted skillset, in mind for this slot.
>
> Eric
>
>
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