USC OS annotation task

[kmcdono2]

In addition to the Sanborn maps, we also have some 19th c. maps of Britain that we are working with on Machines Reading Maps. We would like to annotate these maps for the same reason that we are annotating the Sanborns: to create a gold standard to evaluate against the performance of the mapKurator model.

The maps we have selected for the gold standard represent a tiny sample of the corpus we will analyze for an experiment on the project. The experiment explores the presence of historical sites (esp. classical, or 'Roman' sites) as documented on 19th c. maps. To this end, we've picked some that are interesting from a historical perspective.

In the Gold Standard List spreadsheet that you are already familiar with, these British maps are at the top and include the 1st edition 25" sheets in rows 2-10 (e.g. from Wiltshire LXVI.15 down to Wiltshire LIV.13 per the 'short title' field in Column G).

Annotation guidelines

As a reminder, you are not required to do step 3 "Linking to knowledge bases" (e.g. geotagging). Valeria and I will take care of that.

Annotating these maps is very similar to the Sanborn sheets, however there are some key differences.

1. There is a lot less text and the label types should be much more straightforward.
2. Please DO annotate text outside the neatline (e.g. the border separating the map content from the rest of the map sheet). The Sanborn's didn't have a neatline, so this will feel new.