Project heiMAP

Virtual map table for collaborative research with maps and geodata

The goal of this project was the creation of a virtual map table for collaborative research on primarily historical maps and geodata (WebGIS). This virtual map table was integrated into a web portal with modular tools and services for project, quality and data management. This digital working environment and the ability to work on historical maps in situ offer solutions to a number of pressing problems facing contemporary spatial research in the humanities:

• orientation in pre-modern spaces through the development of historical maps
• active and source-oriented research on maps as opposed to with maps
• collaborative work online rather than on desktop applications with very high access barriers
• accessibility through concentration on core functions and target-group-oriented documentation
• integration with services at the University Library
• rights management and evidence of provenance
• standard conformity of the compiled geodata through assisted data modeling
• long-term storage
• propagation and re-importation of datasets under new queries.