This project represents the beginning stages of a much larger-scale endeavor, which unfortunately is beyond our current capacity. We believe that more meaningful and interesting analytics could emerge through further harnessing the power of GIS data and building more links between these two interconnected datasets (treaty and map metadata).
With a much larger collection of images and much larger datasets, our analysis tools would grow exponentially more powerful.
Future capture and analysis of textual data could be automated using a Python script and command-line to scrape text and build .txt files directly as well as geocoordinate location information without a GUI.
This project would greatly benefit from a partnership with an institution that houses a large collection of historical maps in need of digitization - ideally, a more automated way to ingest content into our data model could eventually be integrated into the standard workflow for historic map digitization.
We would love to use xml markup to embed more layers of our extensive metadata records into these webpages, and we are very interested in integrating OpenStreetMap data to further enhance our visualizations.
We are open to collaborations and feedback. See ABOUT US for contact information.
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