Events

Community Calls

We host online community calls every 2 months for friends of MapReader to meet up and discuss work in progress, feature requests, shared development tasks, or other issues and ideas. All are welcome. Details for joining are available in the Google notes doc for each call.

Upcoming calls

• April 18, 2024, 4-5pm UK time - Notes and zoom link

• June 20, 2024, 4-5pm UK time

Past calls

• February 15, 2024, 4-5pm UK time - Notes

Workshops

Thanks to the new AHRC-supported project Data/Culture based at The Alan Turing Institute, we are offering a series of hands-on workshops to support a growing user community around MapReader during 2024.

Spring Data/Culture Workshop: MapReader

April 30-May 1, 2024 at The Alan Turing Institute, London, UK

• 2-day workshop for historians and other historically-inclined researchers about learning to use MapReader.

• Bursaries available.

• Apply and find more details at https://www.turing.ac.uk/events/spring-dataculture-workshop-search-inside-maps-mapreader

Summer Data/Culture Workshop: MapReader + Newspapers

June 5-7, 2024 in Lancaster, UK

• Co-sponsored by the N8

• 3-day workshop for historians and other historically-inclined researchers about learning to use MapReader (2 days) paired with an introduction to tools and data from Living with Machines related to digitized British newspaper collections.

• Bursaries available.

• Application will be available soon.

MapReader Workshop at Spatial Humanities 2024

September 25, 2024 in Bamberg, Germany

• 1/2 day workshop co-located with the Spatial Humanities conference

Fall Data/Culture Workshop: MapReader + Newspapers

Date to be announced shortly!

• This workshop will be most likely hybrid: online and at The Alan Turing Institute, London, UK