dear all, I'm sorry that I'm so late to the open historical map party, I didn't realise it was happening.
There's a field of "digital humanities" which may still be a useful buzz phrase for funding applications. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/about/index.aspx There is Sean Gillies' work on ancient world linked data for the Pleaides project, which started as a name search for something called the Barrington Atlas. The GeoJSON format was in part a spinoff from the Pleaides project as were the Shapely libraries in python. http://pleiades.stoa.org/help/lod Sean's name would look good on any application. I would love to be able to cross the data gaps over the dark ages. At EDINA we worked with the Institute of Name Studies to produce a thousand-year linked data historical gazetteer. for England. The data should have been OdBL licensed but this is not spelled out in the final project :/. However, you can still query and crawl for much of it with URLs shaped like this: http://unlock.edina.ac.uk/ws/search?name=Telford&format=json&gazetteer=deep Here, the Maps Department of the National Library of Scotland have become co-involved in proposals and added gravitas. There's been a student effort to massively improve building coverage and historical addressing in Edinburgh as part of this funded project http://www.mesh.ed.ac.uk/ I've got a bag of papers I was hurriedly given, that belonged to an EDINA colleague who groundbroke a lot of the historical place-name search work there in the early 2000s and died quite suddenly a couple of years ago. I have always meant to go through his papers and summarise the best parts as an in memoriam effort on behalf of Andy Corbett. Perhaps i can find some time now. http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/2002workshop/Geo-Crosswalk.htm I hope to make it to this, if i can get workplace to send me: http://lanyrd.com/2015/wikilovesmaps/ I'm still bugging about historical text mining to help extract structured geodata. I've seen enough convincing prototypes to know that there's loads more yield in this area no tbeing pressed. There's a nice feedback loop extracting names from historical maps, using the names to search other map, linking related names to produce a higher quality historical name search. I'm still not managing to make this the day job that it should be. I look forward to seeing where this effort goes, anyway. :D Thank you all for everything you've done with it so far. On Sun, Dec 28, 2014, at 08:07 PM, Jeff Meyer wrote: > Karl - > > This insider's perspective is fantastic. Very helpful. > > There's much we can do about the lack of a start-up grant on our own, > but the partnership angle is interesting. > > We'll need to be very attentive to the rest of the advice. Another > piece of feedback we've received (from David R?) is that the panel > members' feedback can differ from the project officers' feedback. > So... Your notes are gold. > > For the odds, well... To paraphrase Wayne Gretzky... you never make a > shot you don't take. : ) > > - jeff > > On Friday, December 26, 2014, Karl Grossner > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello OHMers, happy holidays - >> >> A friend and colleague who has followed the discussion of NEH grant >> possibilities for OHM wrote me to share some thoughts drawn from >> their experience as a review panel member for a recent round of DH >> Implementation Grants. I thought they were pretty relevant, so copied >> them in below. My biggest takeaway is the need for innovation in >> humanistic inquiry, which confirms what some have suggested -- >> framing the effort as supporting a particular historical study, and >> simultaneously a proof-of-concept. This may fit a 'start-up' grant >> model better than an implementation one at this stage. >> >> Karl >> >> >> * The Implementation grants are ‘Low Risk / High Reward’ That is, >> project ideas may be fabulous, however, funded projects in the >> ‘Implementation’ round already have some element of success and >> stability. “Implementation” means just that. They will fund >> projects that are already up and running in some form. The funding >> is to enhance or elaborate what has already been done. Stronger >> proposals are those that have: >> * Evidence that PIs are already in a successful partnership, such as >> having co-authored or presented on the project jointly prior. >> * Have already obtained ’support’ for the project which could be NEH >> Start Up funds, or campus or other external funding, or >> recognition of any sort. >> * Statement of Innovation concerns innovation in both technology and >> humanistic inquiry - really creative innovations in both areas. >> The percentages of grant winners in past years is approx. 15%. >> Very slim. My panel reviewed 18 proposals (out of 54? submitted). >> Of those 18, 4 were outstanding, 11 were good and showed promise >> for future developments, 3 were turkeys. Only 1 of the 4 that my >> panel ranked as outstanding went on to receive funding, and that >> particular one had obtained NEH Start Up funds previously. The >> other few that NEH funded in this round were reviewed by the other >> panels and I don’t have background on those. We were told that >> many successful grants had be submitted previously, so it often >> takes more than one try (I am sure you are aware of that). >> >> Preservation, sustainability and data management of the project are >> important and requires thought and planning. This was a weakness of >> many of the middle level proposals. The higher ranked proposals >> mostly used their library or state-level repository partnering, and >> included many details about how the storage, preservation, etc >> would work. >> >> …. it is helpful to talk to the NEH grant officers throughout the >> writing process to make sure, firstly, that the idea is appropriate >> for the grant, as well as to get a pre-review. > > > -- > Jeff Meyer Global World History Atlas www.gwhat.org [email protected] > 206-676-2347 > > OpenStreetMap: Mapping with a Human Touch > > osm: Open Historical Map (OHM)[1] / my OSM user page[2] > t:@GWHAThistory[3] / @OpenHistMap > > f:GWHAThistory[4] > > > > > _________________________________________________ > Historic mailing list [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic Links: 1. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Historical_Map 2. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer 3. https://twitter.com/GWHAThistory 4. https://www.facebook.com/GWHAThistory
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