Old Maps Online Project announced in New York

David Rumsey introduced OldMapsOnline (www.oldmapsonline.org) Project in the New York Public Library, together with Petr Pridal and Humprey Southall.

This innovative search engine allows users to search through map catalogues across a number of institutions in a geographical way. Users will no longer have to spend time identifying which institution might hold the maps they want to view as, for the first time,  the holdings of individual map libraries are presented together in a single interface. 

Initial map holdings come from the David Rumsey Map Collection, The National Library of Scotland, The British Library, the Moravian Library and the map collection of A Vision of Britain through Time and more will be added over the coming months. 

The system is built on MapRank Search, created by Klokan Technologies.

Old Maps Online: New York Public Library Announcement:http://www.slideshare.net/klokan/old-maps-online-new-york-public-library-announcement

Klokan technologies in Europeana annual report

Klokan technologies and its CEO and founder, Petr Pridal, is introduced in Europeana Annual report on the site 9.

Culture Globe wins EuropeanaTech Hackaton competition

Klokan Technologies, as a co-developer of a Culture Globe is proud to announce, that this project has become a winner of Europeana Hackaton competition.

Feel free to try the project yourself at http://cultureglobe.github.io/

More information about competition at http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/etechhackaton2011

FOSS4G Denver 2011

Klokan Technologies participated at the global conference focused on Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial, which was organized by OSGeo and took place in Denver in September 2011.

Petr Pridal presented our company Klokan Technologies, its products, softwares and many other projects in which Klokan Technologies participated.

International Cartographic Conference - France

International Cartographic Association (ICA) Commission on Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage organized a conference in Paris, France. This conference was realized in July 2011 as 25th International Cartographic Conference, and Klokan Technologies was there. Petr Pridal presented about our products, projects and interesting research.

Nationaal Archive Netherlands: Georeferencer

Klokan Technologies prepared Georeferencer application for Nationaal Archief (NA) in the Hague in May 2011. Thanks to Georeferencer, 650 maps were scanned and made available online in less than one month.
Volunteers made their contributions to the project from their homes.

Georeferencer is an online tool service which was adapted to Archief's needs and made public-friendly. This service allows rapid collaborative georeferencing, annotation, 3D visualisation and accuracy analysis of scanned online maps. Online maps are analyzed directly in a web browser environment. You do not need to install any other software on your computer.

In cooperation with people from NA a pilot was set up to gain experience with the use of ten volunteers through a crowdsourcing tool. After the demonstration of the tool volunteers were all excited about the simplicity of the tool and the possibilities of georeferenced maps, especially after showing the transparency slider in Google Earth and MapRankSearch. There was also a competition and prize for the winner.

For more information about this project, please visit: http://www.archief20.org/profiles/blogs/pilot-georefereren

Digital Approaches in Cartographic Heritage: Hague 7-8 April 2011

Petr Pridal from Klokan Technologies was on 6th International Workshop of Digital Approaches in Cartographic Heritage in Hague, 2011.

Progress of OldMapsOnline project done for Moravian Library and Temap were presented together with review of other Georeferencer pilots including information about used technology.

Slides are available at:
http://www.slideshare.net/klokan/cartoheritage-2011-georeferencer-maprank-search-7603115?from_search=4
and
http://www.slideshare.net/klokan/cartoheritage-2011-georeferencer-maprank-search-7603115?from_search=24