Access to full set of Tweets as we shape the #maphackathon

Twitter is a powerful tool and we are using it actively to shape the proposed #maphackathon

Click here to access the top #maphackathon tweets and images.

Click here to access the full set of #maphackathon tweets and images.

#maphackathon datasets on Google drive

We have manually extracted data on English ship movements from witness statements in the English High Court of Admiralty in the 1650s. These data include port departure and arrival dates, allowing computation and visualisation of travel times, dwell times and routes. Data cover ship voyages between 1645…[Read more]

Nicky,

Is there any functionality which allows upload of a gallery of images to a group (e.g. maps, photographs, engravings)?

Not urgent.

Best regards, Colin

Thanks Nicky,

Glad you are looking at facets.

The alphabetical sort option still means then paging through lots of HTML pages. An alphabetical facet would have one page with 24 buttons, each with an ascending letter, which would then go to all “A” names, all “B” names etc.

Best regards, Colin

Thanks Nicky for your quick reply.

I have gone to my Twitter followership and am tweeting open invitations, plus using an internal mailing list to send ten invites at a time.

Best regards, Colin

I agree. Member search is cumbersome at the moment. Simple improvements, such as faceted search by A-Z and by geography would help, e.g. a single page with links to all members in US, in England, in X…; a single page with listing of A-Z.

It would also be very useful to be able to invite all followers on Academia.edu to join Humanities…[Read more]

Twitter exchange with Dr Craig Spence, Saturday December 3rd 2016

Post @Marinelivesorg:  Missing Thames infrastructure – Ideas for datamining text/archaeological records to find & map C17th Thames warehouses? #maphackathon

Post @cgspence: @Marinelivesorg my book ‘London in the 1690s’ incs map locating taxed warehouses vaults etc. 4s A…[Read more]