###WikiMania 2015
####Participants:
- Aurelia Moser, CartoDB
- Dave Riordan, NYPL Labs
####Title: MOOCs and MapWarping: Mapping Online/Offline Communities in Libraries ####Type of submission (discussion, hot seat, panel, presentation, tutorial, workshop) Presentation/Discussion
####E-mail address aurelia@cartodb.com; davidriordan@nypl.org #####Username auremoser ####Country of origin Buenos Aires, Argentina; New York (USA) Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.) CartoDB (cartodb.com); NYPL Labs (http://www.nypl.org/collections/labs) ####Personal homepage or blog CartoDB; Algorhyth.ms; NYPL Labs ()
####Abstract (at least 300 words to describe your proposal)
Maps have historically been a representation of claimed presence and colonial powerplay, cutting the cartography of our planet for the purpose of political possession. Today, digital maps are used to engage marginalized communities, to develop collaborative crisis maps for tracking corruption, atrocity, and patterns of human behavior without the hierarchy or prerequisite of GIS (Geographic Information System) training or formal cartographic affiliation. CartoDB provides free software for open-source collaborative mapping online, promoting maps among journalists, librarians, scientists, and researchers to broaden the scope of the GIS community and build maps that are as functionally current as they are historically conscient. Maintaining a sense of historical precedent imbues maps with a progressive history, tracking the trajectory of map-making from its imperial beginnings to its open and collaborative ends. In 2011, developers and libraries affiliated with the NYPL Labs project and the Maps Division of the NY Public Library built MapWarper, a tool for rectifying scanned historical maps with modern digital maps online. Since that time, NYPL Labs pushed their mapping initiatives beyond their hyper-local collections in map-related hackathons, and projects like Building Inspector or Historical Maps in Minecraft, meant to surface the rich geo-data available to GLAM archivists among a global audience. Taken together, CartoDB and MapWarper provide for a layered understanding of cartographic history, integrating open source data-driven mapping technologies with the cultural archive and preservation promise of the public library. This type of mapping partnership has pan-american scope, and developers at both institutions have brought tutorials and curriculum based on these software to the National Library in Bogota, cultural heritage centers in Buenos Aires, and journalists/press historians in Alaska as well as all over the domestic United States. This session will review some of the functionality available with MapWarper and CartoDB for displaying library data on digital maps. ####Track GLAM & Outreach ####Length of session (if other than 30 minutes, specify how long) 30 minutes ####Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted? Yes ####Slides or further information (optional) www.cartodb.com; http://blog.cartodb.com/cartodb-x-mapwarper/; http://www.nypl.org/collections/labs
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