Activity – Colin Greenstreet

Colin Greenstreet replied to the topic Analytic availability in the discussion Feedback and Feature Requests on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month ago

Hi Paolo, Yes, I have also tried premium and think the who is reading what is the best aspect of that service. I agree with your point about the user having control of his/her own “broadcast” vs “privacy” settings
Colin Greenstreet started the topic LLC Italian American in the forums: Open-source historical mapping, Linked Open Data, Digital Humanists.

The maphackathon organising group have created a maphackathon Zotero bibliographical group. The group library is available for all to view, but to contribute and to edit you will need to be an invited member.

We would be delighted if members of the Humanities Commons Open-Source Historical Mapping group, the Digital Humanists group and the Linked…[Read more]
Colin Greenstreet created the event Early Modern Thames Maphackathon in the group Open-source historical mapping. on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
Colin Greenstreet started the topic Mapping the sounds of the Early Modern Thames shoreline – Treadmill cranes in the discussion Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

The Agas map of London, published c. 1633, but showing London c. 1550-1560, shows a series of cranes at different places along the Thames north shore, both above and below London Bridge. These cranes appear to be treadmill cranes. An example of a large treadmill crane, powered by four men in a treadmill at one side of the crane, can be seen in…[Read more]
Colin Greenstreet replied to the topic Use of pinterest as a discovery tool for map and image mapping sources in the discussion Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

Six days since launching the Thamesshore line #maphackathon Pinterest board we have 353 Pins and 10 Followers

images of Thames and Thames shoreline C17th to early C20th between London Bridge and Woolwich
images of Thames north and south shore parishes between London Bridge and Woolwich

Major sources of pins so far are:

ballastquay.com…[Read more]
Colin Greenstreet started the topic Use of pinterest as a discovery tool for map and image mapping sources in the discussion Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

I kicked off a MarineLives experiment today by creating a #maphackathon pinterest board, and publicising it on Twitter. It will be interesting to see if it acquires any followers and develops a creative life or is just a “good idea” which goes nowhere. As of 12.21 Wedneday December 7th 2016 it had eleven pins (all seeded by me) and had acquired…[Read more]
Colin Greenstreet posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

Thanks. Will take a look
Colin Greenstreet posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

Addendum: How do I edit out my typos in a message thread!!
Colin Greenstreet posted a new activity comment on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

Statistics! How do early adopters see if their efforts are generating views and DLs. Academia.edu has an analytics package which identified people who bookmarj, DL, follow etc. I’m not an acaemic, and am not driven by the need for impact statistics for aceamic progress, but I am interested in assessing Humanities Commons as a platform vs,…[Read more]
- Colin Greenstreet replied 6 years, 3 months ago
  
  Addendum: How do I edit out my typos in a message thread!!
- Nicky Agate replied 6 years, 3 months ago
  
  Hi, Colin: I’ve messaged you about statistics.
  - Colin Greenstreet replied 6 years, 3 months ago
    
    Thanks. Will take a look
Colin Greenstreet replied to the topic Welcome! in the discussion Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

Hello. I would like to ask what your academic/non-academic background is? I clicked on your profile and found a pretty landscape. I know next to nothing about early-medieval, but am interested and happy to trade knowledge of the mid-C17th. I am co-founder and co-director of a volunteer led project named MarineLives, which is working on the…[Read more]
Colin Greenstreet replied to the topic Spatial experiment at #maphackathon, Feb 10/11 2017 (TBC) in the discussion Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

Provisional goal of #maphackathon spatial experiment:

To build a river-centric analysis of commercial life in C17th and early C18th London and surrounds, using diverse text, numeric, visual and map data sources supplied or hacked by #maphackathon attendees. Visualisations to combine topographical, occupational and event/movements data; c…[Read more]
Colin Greenstreet replied to the topic CFP of potential interest to the group in the discussion Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

Posted the CFP to @marinelivesorg Twitter account. As of 13.34 UK time, Tues Dec 6th 2016 seven Retweets
Colin Greenstreet started the topic Linked open data from MarineLives semantic media wiki for experimentation in the discussion Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

The MarineLives project uses a semantic media wiki as its platform to view and transcribe manuscript images, to annotate transcribed pages, and to create semantic biographies. All semantic biographies contain geographical location data. For example, semantic biographies for the hamlet of Limehouse in the parish of Stepney in the county of Middlesex…[Read more]
Colin Greenstreet started the topic Linked data using Semantic Media Wiki for humantities projects in the discussion Linked Open Data on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

The MarineLives project uses a semantic media wiki as its platform to view and transcribe manuscript images, to annotate transcribed pages, and to create semantic biographies. RDF data are available for download and reuse by other researchers. All data downloadable on a CC BY 3.0 licence.

The MarineLives wiki is built on a PHP-based stack:
– Me…[Read more]
Colin Greenstreet posted an update in the group Linked Open Data on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

Use of semantic media wiki in humanities projects. The MarineLives project uses a semantic media wiki as its platform to view and transcribe manuscript images, to annotate transcribed pages, and to create semantic biographies [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Category:Semantic_biography] which can be linked. RDF data is available for download and…[Read more]
Colin Greenstreet replied to the topic Spatial experiment at #maphackathon, Feb 10/11 2017 (TBC) in the discussion Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

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.
Colin Greenstreet replied to the topic Spatial experiment at #maphackathon, Feb 10/11 2017 (TBC) in the discussion Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

#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]
Colin Greenstreet replied to the topic Members search in the discussion Feedback and Feature Requests on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

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
Colin Greenstreet replied to the topic Members search in the discussion Feedback and Feature Requests on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

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
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