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Machines Reading Maps

Welcome to Machines Reading Maps

Machines Reading Maps (MRM) is a collaboration between the University of Southern California Digital Library, Computer Science & Engineering Department at the University of Minnesota, and the Alan Turing Institute (UK). Our project partners include the Library of Congress, the British Library, and the National Library of Scotland. The project is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in the US and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in the UK under the first round of NEH/AHRC New Directions for Digital Scholarship. We also are supported by David Rumsey.

MRM seeks to normalize map text as a new kind of data that can be used across the humanities and the heritage sector.

If you would like to know more about Machines Reading Maps, feel free to get in touch, or to check out our project's wiki.

Here you will find the code, tutorials, guidelines for MRM tools and experiments. These include:

Code

  • mapKurator-system - A modularized method combining text spotting and entity linking using historical map scans as input. mapKurator output provides researchers with a structured dataset documenting the geospatial and image coordinates for the bounding polygon around any text on maps; the transcription of the text; and a prediction of links to external knowledge bases for named entities.
  • mrm-recogito-ui - Custom version of the Regotio annotation platform. This interface includes new features specific to map annotation, and integrates basic mapKurator functionality.
  • semantic-type-recommendation-api - Retrieves semantically similar "types" of places (e.g. "hotel" or "school") for experimenting with semantic type labeling of features on historical maps.
  • Rumsey-MRM - Pipeline using mapKurator to process 57k georeferenced maps in the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.
  • luna-annotorious-client - Annotation interface embedded in David Rumsey Historical Map Collection Luna Insight Browser. This interface allows users to edit mapKurator-generated map annotations and share new information about places labelled on maps.

Tutorials

Questions or comments? You can reach us @ReadingMaps, or you'll find our contact info over here.

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  1. Tutorials-Newsletters Tutorials-Newsletters Public

    Machines Reading Maps Tutorials, Advisory Board Newsletters, and Annotation Guidelines

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  2. mapkurator-system mapkurator-system Public

    Python 9

  3. mrm-recogito-ui mrm-recogito-ui Public

    A fully customized annotation interface for MRM that fits into Recogito

    JavaScript 4 1

  4. semantic-type-recommendation-api semantic-type-recommendation-api Public

    Semantic type recommendation API that retrieves semantically similar types

    Python 1

  5. luna-annotorious-client luna-annotorious-client Public

    An annotation interface for the Luna Digital Asset Management System

    Svelte 3 1

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  • luna-annotorious-client Public

    An annotation interface for the Luna Digital Asset Management System

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    Svelte 3 BSD-3-Clause 1 1 0 Updated Mar 23, 2024
  • rumsey Public

    Help docs for searching & annotating mapKurator data output in David Rumsey Map Collection.

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    Ruby 0 0 2 0 Updated Nov 19, 2023
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    Python 9 0 0 0 Updated Sep 5, 2023
  • os-data Public

    OS vector tile data

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    HTML 0 0 1 0 Updated Aug 28, 2023
  • map-kurator Public

    Wrapper around Zekun's model to detect and generate annotations around map labels

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    Python 25 8 0 1 Updated Aug 15, 2023
  • mrm-recogito-ui Public

    A fully customized annotation interface for MRM that fits into Recogito

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    JavaScript 4 BSD-3-Clause 1 13 0 Updated May 5, 2023
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    Machines Reading Maps Tutorials, Advisory Board Newsletters, and Annotation Guidelines

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