https://blog.muninn-project.org/taxonomy/term/58 en https://blog.muninn-project.org/node/69 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>How to read a British Trench Map of the Western Front</p> <p><a href="http://blog.muninn-project.org/user/1">Robert Warren</a>, <a href="http://www.bigdata.dal.ca">Big Data Institute</a></p> <p><a href="http://daluclub.ca/the-pub/">Dalhousie University Club Pub</a>, February 26th, 2014, 7pm</p> <p>Abstract: This presentation will review the <a href="http://rdf.muninn-project.org/ontologies/btmaps">British Trench Map Coordinate</a> system used by British and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion">Dominion</a> forces on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Front_(World_War_I)">Western Front</a> during the Great War.  The origins of the system and the issues in its implementations with Belgian and French plates and field surveys by British ordnance surveys teams will be explained. Reading Trench Maps legends and using the <a href="http://rdf.muninn-project.org/TrenchCoordinates.html">Muninn Trench Map converter</a> will be covered with a few historical locations serving as examples.</p> </div></div></div><div class="form-item form-type-item"> <label>Language </label> English </div> <div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/taxonomy/term/57" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Trench Map</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/taxonomy/term/58" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Coordinates</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/taxonomy/term/59" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">British</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/taxonomy/term/47" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">ww1</a></div></div></div> Tue, 25 Feb 2014 02:21:45 +0000 warren 69 at https://blog.muninn-project.org https://blog.muninn-project.org/node/69#comments