Brilliant work from the Knowledge Computing Lab led by Yaoyi Chiang + Luna Imaging w/more to come from @aboutgeo and the rest of the team!

Thanks to all the volunteers who helped with our map transcription projects this year. maps.nls.uk/transcriptions… Book now for our closing event at 17.00 GMT on Thursday 8th November to celebrate the success of these projects and the new resources created.eventbrite.co.uk/e/map-transcri…

This was such a great experience for us! We can't wait to celebrate the results with NLS Map Collections and all the contributors next week.

An 1890s #Firework Factory! In the woods on the hill by Craigmillar Castle. Who’d have known?! Just one of many long gone features now easily discoverable with our amazing new 25-inch #Edinburgh gazetteer. Explore more: maps.nls.uk/additions/#133

The next session of the seminar « Traitement de données géographiques » IXXI will take place on Thursday, November 24 at 2pm (CET) at @ENSdeLyon (and online). Free registration framaforms.org/inscription-se… Program gitlab.liris.cnrs.fr/geode/seminair…

Valeria Vitale will present "Labels and Symbols: the representation of Antiquities on the Ordnance Survey maps of Great Britain, and their digital annotation." and @aboutgeo "Machines Reading Maps and Recogito: an Online Environment for the Annotation of Historic Maps" Machines Reading Maps

A big thank you to Valeria Vitale & @aboutgeo for their talks yesterday on their work on the Machines Reading Maps project at our IXXI seminar. The recorded videos of the presentations are available on the seminar website: gitlab.liris.cnrs.fr/geode/seminair…

Today 13:30 - 14:30 GMT: Exploring text on maps. Join the Machines Reading Maps team as they discuss experimental features being developed to enhance how #maps David Rumsey can be accessed, searched, investigated & experienced — & make your own suggestions eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-te… 3/4

Meeting Jeffrey 유 Yoo Warren and learning about his work with Sanborn maps as the Innovator in Residence at Library of Congress is the highlight of our week! Can't wait to see more!

#SavetheDate 🥁  🗓️ 28 April + 12 & 19 May Our next #TMAcademies is gearing up to introduce #Recogito – an online #OS tool for collaborative document annotation – to our #TMOmembers. 💫 🪄 Our hosts: The Open University, The University of Sheffield & Pelagios. 🤩 bit.ly/3IPYmh6

Happy #MapsMonday! Speaking of happy we have the walled #settlement of Sara (which means happy, pure in Arabic). The urban settlement has since expanded but some of the #historic structures still remain. #map #MapMonday #architecture

Something cool is happening in April w/Machines Reading Maps, David Rumsey, & Luna Imaging hosted by Stanford University Libraries... Details coming v. soon. A little teaser:

Join Machines Reading Maps David Rumsey & Luna Imaging at Stanford University Libraries on April 20 1-4pm pacific for the Machines Reading Maps Summit, a conference about creating, searching, and interacting with TEXT on MAPS. In-person & zoom participation both possible. eventbrite.com/e/machines-rea…

Book your place at our AI symposium with @RLUK and SCURL , in Edinburgh or online - Tuesday 25 April (all day). Free entry > nls.uk/events/ Esteemed speakers include Prof Sir Adrian Smith of The Alan Turing Institute, Masud Khokhar, Neil Fitzgerald, Marion Carré, @pmgooding and more.

In a stunning show of support for libraries, late yesterday afternoon the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to support a resolution backing the Internet Archive and the digital rights of all libraries. ▶️blog.archive.org/2023/04/20/san… #DigitalRightsForLibraries

Machines Reading Maps & David Rumsey Summit Stanford University Libraries is tomorrow (Thurs, 4/20, 1-4pm pacific)!!!

Workshop led by Machines Reading Maps team about text on maps data from David Rumsey this Friday (4/21) CESTA - join us from 1-4pm if you're on campus. Register here: eventbrite.com/e/machines-rea… Stanford History Stanford University Libraries

If Willie Nelson were to come by Stanford University Libraries, Monday before his frostamphitheater show, to use the new Machines Reading Maps #AI search to find maps of Luckenbach, TX? Well,... that would be just fine. #LetsGoFindLuckenbach

Good news for maps! Yesterday IIIF & the IIIF Maps Technical Specification Group (TSG) published the Georeference Extension specification. As part of the allmaps.org project, Jules Schoonman and I worked on this spec for more than a year iiif.io/news/2023/05/1…

Now YOU can search text on 57k historical maps 👇