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Presentation: From the Trenches - The Muninn Trench Coordinates API

warren — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 15:36:45 +0000

From the Trenches: The Muninn Trench Coordinates API
Robert Warren, Big Data Institute
Linked Geo Data Workshop, Wednesday March 5th, 2013, 16:30
Campus London, 4-5 Bonhill Street, London EC2A 4BX

Abstract: This paper reports on the experiences of building a linked geo data coordinates translation API and some of the issues that arose. Beyond the basic capacities of SPARQL, a specialized API was constructed to translate obsolete British Trench Map Coordinates from the Great War into modern WGS84 reference systems. Concerns over current methods of recording geographic information along with accuracy and precision information are reported on. Open questions about managing the opportunistic enrichment of geographical instances are discussed as well as the scalability pitfalls therein.

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Open Historical Map presentation at State of the Map Birmingham

warren — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 00:23:42 +0000

A talk titled "Open Historical Map : Re-using outdated information" will be presented by David Evans at the State of the Map conference in Birmingham this Friday at 14:20 GMT. The talk is about the Open Historical Map, an offshot of the Open Street Map, that concerns itself with historical GIS information. It brings together a lot of the ideas of Jeff Meyer, Muninn, Susanna Ånäs (WikiMaps) and others about what historical mapping should look like.
Muninn has been quietly exporting some trench information to the OHM and trying out a few different experiments about how to best integrate geospatial information. At present, the Linked Geo Data export from the OHM is not working and this is necessary for Muninn to work properly. An bigger problem is reconciling the trench data that is both spatial and temporal across each party's trench maps and the ennemy's intelligence map of the same trenches. What is an interesting research problem for an historian turns out to be a really interesting algorithmic problem for computer scientist!

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Talk at Cambridge Computer Lab

hulan — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:32:59 +0000

Do a Billion Documents Change the First World War?

Shelley Hulan, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Waterloo

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 14:30

Room FW11, Cambridge Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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Humanities scholars have historically examined World War I through a limited number of exceptional texts comprised of literary works, personal diaries, and select correspondence that represent a tiny fraction of the billions of documents that the conflict generated and through which military administrations tracked millions of troop and civilian activities. These “exceptional” texts are also frequently regarded as facilitating the early twentieth-century turn to contemporary modernity, an intellectual and cultural movement that embraced the notion that the language most descriptive of the times was dense, difficult, and dubious about the possibility that the war had any meaning whatsoever. This presentation looks at the ways in which data mining the mountain of other, “non-exceptional” wartime records challenges popular notions of the language that most accurately represents the war.

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Lightning talk at WWW 2010 Linked Open Data Camp

warren — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0000

If you attending WWW2010, I will presenting a lightning talk at the W3 Linked Open Data Camp in room 306C in the afternoon session. (slides)

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