Mobilizing Historic Geodata: Hack NYC’s Past | June 4 & 5 at The New York Public Library

[Shekhar Krishnan]

Dear All:

See the private invitation below from Matt Knutzen, head of the Maps
Division at the New York Public Library.

Our team from Topomancy will be assisting on-site with this workshop.
Please join us if you can come to New York.

Best,


Shekhar


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Subject: [INVITATION] Mobilizing Historic Geodata: Hack NYC�s Past |
June 4 & 5 at The New York Public Library
Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 18:31:50 -0400
From: Matt Knutzen <mattk...@nypl.org>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;



Hello friends,

I'd be honored to have you at the NYPL on June 4 and 5...


Matt



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Mobilizing Historic Geodata: Hack NYC�s Past

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2 days of exploring the theory and practice of using historical geodata
in new contexts.


For the past year, The New York Public Library (through the generous
support of the National Endowment for the Humanities and in
collaboration with the brilliant minds at Topomancy) has been building
an experimental urban-scale historical gazetteer called /The New York
City Chronology of Place/ (NYC-CoP). It�s almost done, and that�s good
enough of an occasion to try to bring you all together to start
imagining and building what�s next. We see you, our trusted community of
smart and like-minded developers, as being critical to envisioning these
possibilities.

This project (NYC-CoP) is about building tools to construct rich
historical spatial datasets that are aimed to be used openly and freely,
and we imagine that we can�t envision all possible uses it will enable.
We�ve known all along that there are treasure troves of amazing stuff
increasingly on the web (as API) related to lots of these historical
places... that said, we want to use our gazetteer and its data to
wrangle this hodgepodge.

So, we invite you all here to the NYPL for two days to have some fun. We
understand that there are those of us who have our heads in the clouds
and love to yack endlessly about adjacent possibilities and there are
those who love to get their hands dirty with code and data, so we�ve
divided our time into two parallel tracks... Yacking and Hacking... and
you can participate in either or both.


Hack Track:

Possibilities...

Historical geoparsing against NYC-CoP

Historical foursquare - walking tour check in

Historical Newspapers Lookup

Historical Geofencing


Yack Track:

Future collaborations

Mobilizing new datasets

Optimizing collecting of historical geodata

Local Historical Mobile (LoHiMo)

Crimespotting NYC 1852

Grand Theft Auto (Horse Drawn Carriage?) - Five Points


So pack up your GeoJSON and come on over! There will be food, drink,
good times, and good, clean data/fun.


Please RSVP soon-ish so we can plan for the turnout. Let�s call it 2
weeks from now.


Registration Link:
https://docs.google.com/a/nypl.org/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHZ3T1VGUnhvOElmYzE5RkR1d3VaVGc6MQ#gid=0*

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> Matthew A. Knutzen
> Geospatial Librarian
> The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
> Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
> The New York Public Library
> 5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117
> New York, NY 10018-2788
> mattk...@nypl.org <mailto:mattk...@nypl.org>, 212-930-0562, fax
> 212-930-0027
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> http://www.nypl.org/locations/schwarzman/map-division
> http://www.maps.nypl.org <http://www.maps.nypl.org/>
> http://twitter.com/@nyplmaps

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Shekhar Krishnan
Topomancy LLC

http://shekhar.cc
http://topomancy.com