About Archives Hub Travel & Exploration visulisation Tool

This tool search for the travel/exploration journey of particular person or organisation from the Archives Hub Linked Data Where subject = 'travel' or 'exploration' and extract the places. Then these places would be plotted on a map and provide the link to browse the data in different formats such as HTML, RDF/XML, JSON, and Turtle.

These tool also linked to Images from The National Archives on Flickr Commons. When user click on the particular place the tool search for the images from the The National Archives on Flickr Commons and display first 100 images related to the place that are privoded by The National Archieves UK

How to Use the Tool

First click on the Following link.
Archives Hub Travel & Exploration visulisation Tool

  • The page provide list of Id's of the person/organisation in a drop down list.
  • Select id from the list (For example select id:gb102ms193299)
  • When the ID is selected tool display the Travel/Exploration journey of the selected id on the Google Map as shown in the Fig. 1 below.

    Places on Google MapFig.1


  • When the user click on the pin point on Map tool perform two tasks first is pop window show the Place name, person/organisation detail, date (time interval during which the archival resource was created or accumulated), and provide link to Browse Data Source in to different format (HTML, RDF/XML, JSON, Turtle). The pop will be shown like Fig. 2 below.

    Information POP UP WindowFig.2


  • The tool also perform second task to linked the The National Archieves UK images related to particular place as shown in the Fig. 3 below.

    The National Archieves UK ImagesFig.3


  • For certain places if the images not available then it will display empty frame with the messages for example "Hong Kong No Photos Found".
  • If usere require more information regarding the image please click on the image and usere will be redirect to Flickr website for example: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31575009@N05/5416847242


    • Data set Used

    Dataset::
    1.Archives Hub Linked Data
    2.Images from The National Archives on Flickr Commons

    Web Technology Used

    Web Technology::
    1. PHP
    2. AJAX
    3. Javascript

    Web API & Sparql endpoint Used

    Web API & Sparql endpoint::
    1.Archives Hub Sparql Endpoint
    2.Flickr API
    3.Google Maps JavaScript API V2



    Developed By:
    Yogesh Patel
    yogesh.patel@manchester.ac.uk