Unearthing the research potential of historic maps

On April 19 - 21, The David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford University hosted a gathering of the Machines Reading Maps (MRM) team members to unveil the results of the MRM project as illustrated by the David Rumsey Map Collection in LUNA. Over the course of three days, participants presented technical details of the process and solicited input on the future evolution of MRM from a project to a community-supported toolkit.

Read about the potential outcomes for MRM in the Journal of Cultural Analytics, Searching maps by words: how machine learning changes the way we explore map collections by Valeria Vitale PhD, Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities, University of Sheffield and Machine Reading Maps team member.