Project Curriculum Vitae

Peer-reviewed publications

Kasra Hosseini, Katherine McDonough, Daniel van Strien, Olivia Vane, Daniel C.S. Wilson, “Maps of a Nation? The Digitized Ordnance Survey for New Historical Research,” Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 26, Issue 2, April 2021, Pages 284–299, https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcab009

Kasra Hosseini, Daniel C. S. Wilson, Kaspar Beelen, and Katherine McDonough, “MapReader: a computer vision pipeline for the semantic exploration of maps at scale.” In _Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities (GeoHumanities ‘22)_. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA (2022), 8–19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3557919.3565812

Non-Peer-reviewed publications

Hosseini, Kasra, Daniel C. S. Wilson, Kaspar Beelen, and Katherine McDonough. “MapReader: A Computer Vision Pipeline for the Semantic Exploration of Maps at Scale.” arXiv, 30 November 2021. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2111.15592.

Data outputs

Training and inferred data for ACM SIGSPATIAL 2022 research experiments published on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/record/7147906#.ZG3YD-zMI-Q

Model outputs

Models fine-tuned for the ACM SIGSPATIAL 2022 research experiments shared on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/models?other=arxiv:2111.15592

Visualizations

National Library of Scotland [MapReader Railway and Building Dataset Viewer](https://maps.nls.uk/projects/mapreader/#zoom=6.0&lat=56.00000&lon=-4.00000)

[MapReader Output Examples on Felt](https://felt.com/map/MapReader-Launch-Output-examples-9AqftKrvPTlWfwOGkdkCGkD?loc=54.157,-1.949,6.06z&share=1)

Workshops

Maps as Data Workshop 13-14 March 2003

  • Two-Day workshop held at the BMA in London

  • c.25 invited international participants

  • First public presentation of the library/tool, together with research presentations

  • Extensive user testing and evaluation of the library by possible users in digital mapping and academic communities

MapReader Public Launch Event 7-8 June 2023

  • Two-Day launch held at the Alan Turing Institute in London

  • Included research presentations by MapReader team

  • Invited keynote lectures by Chris Fleet (NLS) and Nicole Colman (Stanford)

  • Hands-on workshop to demonstrate and experiment with MapReader to academic and other users

  • https://livingwithmachines.ac.uk/event/mapreader-launch/

MapReader Invited Workshop at SCAI Paris 27 June 2023

Tutorials

Programming Historian Lessons

Daniel van Strien, Kaspar Beelen, Melvin Wevers, Thomas Smits, and Katherine McDonough, Computer Vision for the Humanities: An Introduction to Deep Learning for Image Classification (Part 1), https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0101

Daniel van Strien, Kaspar Beelen, Melvin Wevers, Thomas Smits, and Katherine McDonough, Computer Vision for the Humanities: An Introduction to Deep Learning for Image Classification (Part 2), https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0102

Talks

Katherine McDonough, “How to Ask Maps Questions,” “Historians Among the Machines: From Reproducible Computational Experiments to Persuasive Historical Arguments” session, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA 4-7 Jan. 2024.

Katherine McDonough, “Maps as Data for Open Historical Research,” Roundtable on AI and the Historical Profession: Applications and Implications, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA 4-7 Jan. 2024.

Katherine McDonough, Keynote, “[Living with Machines: MapReader](https://www.niso.org/events/2023-niso-humanities-roundtable),” 2023 NISO (National Information Standards Organization) Humanities Roundtable, 20 June 2023

Katherine McDonough, “Building Collaborations for Historical Research,” Digitization and accessibility of cultural heritage collections DIGARV Seminar (Swedish Research Council), [virtual] 29 Oct. 2021

Katherine McDonough, “Maps as [Open] [Humanities] Data: From Access to Analysis,” Reimagining Industry/Academic/Cultural Heritage Partnerships in AI Workshop, AEOLIAN Network (Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Organisations), [virtual] 25 Oct 2021

Kaspar Beelen, Kasra Hosseini, Katherine McDonough, Daniel Wilson, Deep Learning approaches in GIScience, ROyal Geographical Society Annual Conference

Olivia Vane, Kasra Hosseini, Daniel CS Wilson, “Maps in Time: Visualising the Historical Ordnance Survey,” Information+, [virtual] 27 Sept-2 Oct. 2021

Research Using MapReader

Kaspar Beelen, Katherine McDonough, Jon Lawrence, Josh Rhodes, Daniel C.S. Wilson “Beyond the Tracks: connecting people, places and stations to re-assess the impact of rail in Victorian Britain, “Long Presentation at DH2022, Tokyo.

Kaspar Beelen, Katherine McDonough, Jon Lawrence, Josh Rhodes, Daniel C.S. Wilson “Beyond the Tracks: connecting people, places and stations to re-assess the impact of rail in Victorian Britain, forthcoming book chapter.