The AIT expert Rainer Simon (Research Area Next Generation Content Management Systems) together with Leif Isaksen & Pau de Soto Cañamares (University of Southampton) and Elton Barker (The Open University) were awarded for their idea to the research project SEA CHANGE with the Open Humanities Award in the category "Open track". The team was able to previal against a large number of participants from different nations.
SEA CHANGE will make available high-quality open geographic metadata for Historic Geospatial Documents – historic documents that use written or visual representation to describe geographic space. In the course of two “hackathon”-like workshops, the project will work with academics and students of relevant disciplines (e.g. history, geography) as well as with interested members of the public on annotating selected documents and making use of the results...
Details of SEA CHANGE and background information please read here!