The Universities of Liverpool, Coventry, and London are using Humap to create crowdsourced, collaborative interactive maps for academic research.
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Our clients use Humap to bring together collections from partner institutions, forge relationships with the local community, gather data…to name just a few uses!
Layers of London, a £1.3M project from the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), is partnered with several notable London institutions and thousands of voluntary contributors. Layers of London’s partners include:
The Layers’ team have run webinars, school sessions, teacher CPD sessions, and sparked national interest in crowdsourced heritage. They won the Birkbeck Public Engagement award in the Collaboration category in 2020 and are often consulted on similar projects.
Using the map as a jumping off point, the Layers project team have:
At time of writing, Layers of London holds 11,632 records and 383 collections. The majority of these was uploaded by members of the public interested in leaving their own mark on the interactive map.
Whether you’re gathering oral histories, preserving at-risk heritage, distributing surveys or building connections with local communities, Humap’s user-generated content feature is the right tool for the job.
Image from Layers of London.
There are currently two individual researchers using Humap to create interactive maps for academic research. You can read Dr Samantha Brummage’s blog on prehistoric Uxbridge here and Idroma Montgomery’s blog on interwar queer culture in London and New York here.
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Image from Idroma Montgomery’s Humap.
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