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

该研究项目旨在探索提供Memory Mapper的商业模式，Memory Mapper是伦敦大学学院Bartlett建筑环境学院的研究人员创建的一种开源网络地图工具，用于记录地方及其历史，作为对大学部门的研究人员和教师以及画廊，图书馆，档案馆和博物馆（GLAM）部门的专业人员的服务。“记忆绘图仪”是在作为"伦敦白教堂倡议调查“（https：//surveyoflondon.org/）的一部分开展的工作的基础上开发的，这是一个创新的基于网络的公共历史项目，利用互动绘图和众包技术，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，来自伦敦大学学院和EPSRC的资助产生了一些使用该软件的后续地图，最突出的是犹太伦敦东区的记忆地图（https：jewisheastendmemorymap.org）和伦敦妇女城（伦敦）（https：//cityofwomenlondon.org/）。通过这些项目以及通过在高等教育、GLAM和社区部门培养一个独立的记忆地图项目社区，我们有证据表明，该工具有市场需求。通过结合深入的市场研究，用户测试与当前的内存映射用户，参与行动研究研讨会和半结构化的访谈，该项目将提供一个最低可行产品（MVP）的内存映射器的下一个迭代的规格，并将建立经验基础上，进一步的资金可以寻求。

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.