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Résultats de recherche
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Software
Living-with-machines/MapReader: End of LwM
This release marks the end of the current funding for MapReader during the Living with Machines (LwM) project. @kasra-hosseini @andrewphilipsmith @rwood-97 @kmcdono2 @dcsw2 @kallewesterling @kasparvonbeelenHosseini, Kasra ; Wood, Rosie ; Smith, Andy ; McDonough, Katie ; Wilson, Daniel C. S. …
computer vision and maps
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Other
Models for MapReader ACM SIGSPATIAL 2023 Geohumanities Workshop paper
Collection of fine-tuned models created during research published in Kasra Hosseini, Daniel C. S. Wilson, Kaspar Beelen, and Katherine McDonough. 2022. MapReader: a computer vision pipeline for the semantic exploration of maps at scale. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities (GeoHumanities '22). Association for...Hosseini, Kasra ; Beelen, Kaspar ; McDonough, Katherine ; Wilson, Daniel C. S.
computational humanities, computer vision, maps, models, and image classification
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Poster (unpublished)
Changing Nature of the Visual Depiction of the Levant in the Early Printed Maps
This poster is part of a wider research project which demonstrates the transformation of topography, toponyms, and the hydrographic network of Cyprus and the Levant region represented in the maps, from the earliest printed map of the region (printed in 1477) up to the mid-19th century.Peszko, Magdalena
maps, toponyms, Middle East, cartography, early printed maps, and Levant
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Dataset
Ordnance Survey Old / First series England and Wales 1:63360 (georeferenced sheet images)
Map sheet images for the Ordnance Survey Old Series / First Series England and Wales 1:63360, georeferenced and cropped at the neatlike (can be viewed together as a seamless composite). Geotiff format. The original (ungeoreferenced) sheet images can be found at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ordnance_Survey_Old/First_series_England_and_Wales_1:63360_(full_sheets). The sheets were georeferenced by relating the sheet...Vane, Olivia
England, First Series, Old Series, maps, Ordnance Survey, and Wales
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Blog post
Oil, storms and knowing part 2: Pliny, Franklin and the IPCC Special Report on Oceans
This post is the second of a pair to mark the period of the 25th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and is contributed by Andrea Deri, Cataloguer. In addition to seafarers, fishers in the Mediterranean Sea applied oil as Pliny the Elder and Plutarch...Déri, Andrea
science, maps, Americas, modern history, curiosity, travel, and environmental science
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Blog post
Oil, storms and knowing part 1: Seafarers Calm Waves with Oil
This post is to mark the period of the 25th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and is contributed by Andrea Deri, Cataloguer. A storm at sea is one of the most feared experiences, as it often presages shipwreck. Mariners would do anything to survive...Déri, Andrea
South East Asia, science, maps, Medieval history, East Asia, South Asia, Middle East, curiosity, travel, and environmental science
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Dataset
Pelagios Project: Portolano. Egerton MS 2855
This dataset comprises 7 images from a Portolano produced in 1473 by Grazioso Benincasa. The digitisation was sponsored by A. W. Mellon Foundation through the Pelagios Project. Update – 9/3/2018: Please note that there were technical issues with this dataset. If you downloaded before 9/3/2018, please replace with this repaired...British Library
XML, medieval, metadata, manuscripts, and maps
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Dataset
Pelagios Project: Maps after Ptolemy's Geographia. Burney MS 111
This dataset comprises 68 images from a Greek manuscript edition of Ptolemy's Geography containing many diagrams and coloured maps, and produced between the 1375 and 1425. The digitisation was sponsored by A. W. Mellon Foundation through the Pelagios Project. Due to UK copyright law they are technically in copyright until...British Library
XML, medieval, metadata, manuscripts, and maps
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Dataset
Pelagios Project: Digitised Liber insularum Arcipelagi Cotton MS Vespasian a.XIII.art.1
This dataset comprises 82 images from the Liber insularum Arcipegelagi, an illustrated account of the islands and major ports of the Mediterranean produced by Christophori Bondelmonti around 1422. The digitisation was sponsored by A. W. Mellon Foundation through the Pelagios Project. Due to UK copyright law they are technically in...British Library
XML, medieval, metadata, manuscripts, and maps