Vici.org, a crowd sourced Roman map
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Vici.org, a crowd sourced Roman map. Presentation given at Digital Humanities Benelux 2014 in The Hague.
Vici.org, a crowd sourced Roman map
- 1. vici.org, a crowd sourced Roman map Ren辿 Voorburg, DH2014, The Hague rene@digitopia.nl
- 2. Introduction
- 9. Design considerations When creating a database backend, why not opening it up for others to add / edit data? If others provide data, why not help them to retrieve and access the data? Wikipedia as a model, but maps central & multi-lingual Map embeddable by other websites Open JSON API, Pelagios RDF, downloads
- 10. Core functionality Users can add: Markers (since February 2012) Images (since May 2013) KML line tracings (March 2014) .. but no real community supporting features as of yet.
- 13. User engagement
- 18. User engagement summarized 200 activated user accounts 68 users added markers 6073 markers added by users 90% of all markers were added by 9 users. (June 2014)
- 27. Discussion How to attract users beyond NL, DE and BE? What did the 132 users that only registered expect? Populating the map enough appears to have been essential in engaging users Will an investment in community features pay off? Stuck in the middle between science and marketing?
Editor's Notes
- #3: started as a father, not a scientist work for KB, this spare time
- #4: fort vechten, water line defensive line, 19th century learned there was also roman fort, a harbour, a road, vicus, etc. but where?
- #5: here we see the site of the roman fort
- #6: I wanted something like this
- #7: looked for info in the internet, to find what was where, came across a small part of a copy of a roman map, played with it and made a small routeplanner
- #8: bumped into data by Richard Talbert, a map for the whole empire, pretty exciting, lots of media attention, but not my primary goal
- #9: returned to my original goal, be able to see of what was where in roman times started a simple webapp, markers, lines and overlay images, in need of a backend
- #16: origin of the users (June 2014)
- #17: adding markers
- #20: two thirds added by me by importing datasets from all over