Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).
Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 14th June 2025, 06:18:20pm WEST
Introduction to MapReader: Learning to work with maps as data (Workshop)
Time:
Monday, 14/July/2025:
1:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:B309 (TB)
60 places
Session Topics:
artificial intelligence and machine learning, image processing and analysis, open access methods, spatial & spatio-temporal analysis, modeling and visualization, Geography and geo-humanities, History, History of science, Environmental, ocean, and waterway studies, I plan to attend the conference on-site in Lisbon
Presentations
Introduction to MapReader: Learning to work with maps as data (Workshop)
Katherine McDonough1,2, Kaspar Beelen3, Daniel Wilson2, Rosie Wood2, Kalle Westerling2
1Lancaster University, United Kingdom; 2The Alan Turing Institute, United Kingdon; 3School of Advanced Study, University of London, United Kingdom
During this workshop, the team will introduce the MapReader software library and how it fits into a growing ecosystem of computer vision tools for humanities research with maps. Participants will explore MapReader's image classification and text spotting features using colab notebooks and reflect on working with maps as data.
