[OHM] : TimeSlider - calling attention to early prototype

[Karl Grossner]

Hello all, 

I've just now become aware of the OHM effort (hi Susanna) and very interested to learn what the development goals are. Is there a link to some material laying them out? For example, is the plan to provide the means for loading copyright-free scans of historic maps and an editor for digitizing their contents? 

My interests in this include both the spatial and temporal, and the joining of those two. A couple of things that might interest: I've done some work with colleague Elijah Meeks on representing historical time ( http://dh.stanford.edu/topotime ), and there is a discussion under way right now in GeoJSON world about adding a "when" object to the forthcoming GeoJSON-LD standard (several threads, listed here: https://github.com/geojson/geojson-ld/issues ). 

I'm very interested in the prospects for developing over time a global historical atlas that includes vector roads and rivers along with cities and boundaries. There are a few schemes aiming at such a thing, therefore many people talking about similar issues but in different conversations. One thing about digitizing is its so time-consuming, getting the "right" encoding scheme down beforehand becomes really important. Not sure how, but merging the discussions somehow makes sense. 

best 
Karl 

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Karl Grossner 
Digital Humanities Research Developer 
Stanford University Libraries 
Stanford,CA US 
www.kgeographer.org 

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> > From: Rob H Warren < warren at muninn-project.org >
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> > Figuring all of this is something that will take place in a few iterations.
> > Things to keep in mind: The Gregorian calendar starts around 1582 and
> > anything before is only really valid as a year.
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> > The interface between the slider and rendering was originally meant to be
> > an
> > add-on to the tile renderer with something like startDate, endDate being
> > part of the tile URL.
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> > Tim, nice work with the extra layers. What do you think of using TIME-OWL
> > style named time periods to deal with things like "Roman Era" for
> > "historic"
> > tags? This avoids splitting hairs when rendering with dates and help people
> > tag things properly. We can borrow some previous time data from [1].
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> > rhw
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> > [1] hypermedia.research.southwales.ac.uk/kos/star/time-periods/
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