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:
"Coventry Atlas is used by teachers, historians and local people looking to get out and know their city: we’re therefore helping with placemaking in the city, giving people a feel for where they are from and an opportunity to reframe local history their way."
At time of writing, Layers of London holds 12,000+ records, 423 collections, 16 trails, and 64 overlays. 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.
Layers of London “provides the infrastructure and platform for people to present the stories of their own heritage that have gone unrecorded - these are shown alongside academic research and historical artefacts.”
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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