🗺️ How do you make a story map when you don’t have exact location data?

For this blog I chatted to Scarborough Museums and Galleries, The Wiener Holocaust Library, The Common Lot & Facing the Past about how they tackled this question when creating their digital heritage maps!

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Off to #MuseTech2023 Museums Computer Group today! If you see me come say hi 🏛️🧑🏻‍💻

I’ll be giving a lightning talk on making digital projects last longer online, informed by my work with Humap: the storytelling map platform

Really excited to be at Reimagining Primary Sources with AM event at the wonderful Maritime Museum

If you see us come say hello!

Project partners include The University of Central Lancashire - UCLan, Lancaster Priory, Lancaster City Council & _smartify, as well as several freelance artists, heritage professionals and educators!

#FacingThePast is supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund

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The product of many years of research, #FacingthePast aims to educate and raise awareness about the role of #Lancashire in the transatlantic slave trade and assess its lasting legacy.

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' #Lancaster was the fourth largest slaving port in the UK...the #TransatlanticSlaveTrade was participated in, either directly or indirectly, by most trades and professions in Lancaster'

#FacingthePast (Facing the Past) has launched on Humap.

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You can also DM me here for details!

- Natalie

#digitalhumanities #spatialhumanities #edtech #digitalpublishing #GLAM #AcademicTwitter

Want to use interactive maps for storytelling & placemaking but don’t know where to start?

I’ll be giving a live demo of the Humap: the storytelling map platform platform at 12PM UK time on the 15th March!

DM for link 😁

Visuals from refugeemap.org/map

I’m going to be at #HeritageDay2023 tomorrow, if you see me come say hi 😁

Hello cis friends, please do not tell me/others that your friend is trans or a sex worker, it doesn't earn you points for hanging with a trans person or sex worker, it makes you lose points for outing them to another person in order to receive validation as an 'ally'

Word of the morning is ‘apricate’ (17th century): to soak up the warmth of the sun, even in winter.

Interested in using interactive maps for heritage/education/research?

I’m giving a live demo of the Humap platform on Tuesday 7th Feb, 3PM UK time! DM for link 😁

Visuals from refugeemap.org/map

Interested in using interactive maps for heritage/education/research?

I’m giving a live demo of the Humap platform on Tuesday 7th Feb, 3PM UK time! DM for link 😁

Visuals from refugeemap.org/map

my stonehenge theory? big pants for the huge boys

The GAMER. First illustration in my cat gaming series. More to come soon!

Chumbawamba nation wya