Memory Mapper: Exploring Commercial Models for Digital Spatial Humanities Research Infrastructure

这一研究项目旨在探索提供Memory Mapper的商业模式，Memory Mapper是一种基于网络的开源地图工具，用于记录地点及其历史，由伦敦大学学院建筑环境巴特利特学院的研究人员创建，作为大学部门的研究人员和教师以及画廊、图书馆、档案和博物馆(GLAM)部门的专业人员的服务。Memory Mapper是在伦敦白教堂倡议调查(https://surveyoflondon.org/)，)工作的基础上开发的，该倡议是一个创新的基于网络的公共历史项目，利用互动地图和众包技术，让公众参与创建集体制作的白教堂建筑环境历史的历史记录。随后，伦敦大学学院和欧洲妇女研究中心提供资金，使用该软件制作了一系列后续地图，其中最突出的是犹太东区记忆地图(https://jewisheastendmemorymap.org)和伦敦妇女之城(https://cityofwomenlondon.org/).Through))，通过这些项目以及通过在高等教育、GLAM和社区部门培育独立记忆地图项目社区，我们有证据表明，市场对该工具有需求。通过结合深入的市场研究、对当前Memory Map用户的用户测试、参与性行动研究研讨会和半结构化访谈，该项目将为Memory Mapper的下一次迭代提供最低可行产品(MVP)的规范，并将建立可寻求进一步资金的经验基础。

This research project is intended to explore commercial models for offering Memory Mapper, an open-source web-based mapping tool for documenting places and their histories created by researchers at the Bartlett Faculty for the Built Environment, University College London, as a service to researchers and teachers in the universities sector and professionals in the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) sector. Memory Mapper was developed on the basis of work conducted as part of the Survey of London Whitechapel Initiative (https://surveyoflondon.org/), an innovative web-based public history project which used interactive mapping and crowdsourcing techniques to engage members of the public in the creation of collectively-produced historical accounts of the history of the built environment inWhitechapel. Subsequent funding from UCL and from the EPSRC has resulted in a number of follow-on maps using the software, most prominently the Memory Map of the Jewish East End (https://jewisheastendmemorymap.org) and City of Women London (https://cityofwomenlondon.org/).Through these projects and through the fostering of a community of independent Memory Mapper projects in the Higher Education, GLAM and Community sectors, we have evidence that there is a market appetite for the tool. Through a combination of in-depth market research, user testing with current Memory Map users, participatory action research workshops and semi-structured interviews, this project will provide the specification for a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for the next iteration of Memory Mapper, and will establish the empirical basis on which further funding can be sought.