Events

Community Calls

We host online community calls every month 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 community calls

Date

Sign-up link

Notes and Zoom link

October 31, 2024, 4-5pm UK time

Sign up

Notes and Zoom link

November 21, 2024, 4-5pm UK time

Sign up

Notes and Zoom link

January 9, 2025, 4-5pm UK time

Sign up

Notes and Zoom link

February 6, 2025, 4-5pm UK time

POSTPONED

Notes and Zoom link

Past community calls

Date

Notes and Zoom link

August 1, 2024, 4-5pm UK time

Notes and Zoom link

September 5, 2024, 4-5pm UK time

Notes and Zoom link

April 18, 2024, 4-5pm UK time

April 2024 document

February 15, 2024, 4-5pm UK time

February 2024 document

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.

Past workshops

Date and location

Workshop name

Description

More details

Jun 5-7, 2024

Summer Data/Culture Workshop:

MapReader + Newspapers

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. Co-sponsored by the N8. Bursaries available.

Summer Data/Culture Workshop webpage

Apr 30-May 1, 2024

Spring Data/Culture Workshop:

MapReader

2-day workshop for historians and other historically-inclined researchers

about learning to use MapReader.

Bursaries available.

Spring Data/Culture Workshop webpage