The Open Maps Meeting brings together an international community of geospatial researchers, map curators, open-source developers and other professionals with a love for open data and historical maps
- November 5 & 6 2024 at the Dutch National Archives and National Library
- Organized by Jules Schoonman and Vincent Baptist (TU Delft)
- Funded by Open Science NL, KNAW Humanities Cluster, Stichting Pica and TU Delft.
More and more libraries and archives are making their digital collections accessible according to open standards and with open licences. These collections contain numerous maps, which are a valuable source for researchers across different domains. Projects such as Allmaps and MapReader offer open source software to enrich maps with additional information. How can researchers use these tools? And how are heritage institutions able to benefit from the results?
To answer these and more questions, the Open Maps Meeting brings together an international community of geospatial researchers, map curators, heritage and data specialists, open-source developers and other professionals who share an interest in historical maps.
The goals of the Open Maps Meeting are to:
- Connect different expert groups that already exist and work within the context of recently launched mapping-related tools and platforms;
- Jointly discuss the overlaps, gaps and untapped potential of these tools and platforms in order to identify possibilities for further integration and cross-development;
- Stimulate the wider adoption of working with open tools for mapping purposes and promote a sense of collaboration and shared workflows across a new Open Science community.
Day 1: Expert sessions
The first day of the Open Maps Meeting builds common ground between expert participants by introducing and discussing a series of ongoing projects developed with mapping tools, presented by researchers from different institutions. Specific challenges are further addressed in parallel working sessions, reflecting the different phases of a collaborative workflow. At the end of the day, results are pitched by community members chairing the different sessions.
Day 2: Plenary outreach
Like the first day of the Open Maps Meeting, the second day is open to anyone interested, but particularly aimed at researchers, archivists, curators, data stewards and open science advocates who are relatively new to the cartographic tools and workflows discussed during the first day and would like to learn more about their possibilities.