#piedmontheritage, Final project for BIG DIVE 2 A project by: Marco Sors, Maximilien Rzepka, Andrea Peretti “Regional Law 34/95 – Preservation and enhancement of the historical places”. Starting from the data on the historical locations, the group created a visualization with an highlight on the major points of interest in Piedmont. The result is a browsable and interactive web page including a geolocalized cultural heritage map. Link to Project: http://piedmontheritage.bigdive.eu/ Link to Video Presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgb__qx1vu8 Link to BigDive page: http://www.bigdive.eu/final-projects/

1. #piedmontheritage
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INTRO
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2. Maximilien Rzepka
Programmer
Data analysis & Refining
@maxrzepka
Andrea Peretti
Computer science
student
Javascript &
GeoMapping
@andxet
Marco Sors
Frontend developer
Layout &
Metaphors
@MarcoSors
TEAM
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Lire 2
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dataset
GUARINI by CSI
(thanks Andrea Muraca & team)
Regional Law 34/95
"Preservation and enhancement of the local historical”
Numbers:
4.861 entries
1.143 in provincial capitals
2.764 Municipalities of the Region Piedmont
2.246 digital images
2 datasets - csv files:
1 locals
2 objects
(some dust)
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GOAL
ETHIC
20 years hidden data -> motivate local administrations to Open
their data and get more value from and for the citizens'
community
PROACTIVITY
Show how with a minimal effort (3 people in 3.5 days) can
make a dataset more appealing with the latest web
technologies
DEMOCRACY
Dataviz culture for the everyman
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TOOLS
Python for data refining
D3.js for interactive graphs
Polymaps + Cloudmade
GoogleMaps Streetview
HTML5 & CSS3
Javascript
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DEVELOPMENT
DATASET ISSUES
EXTRACT MEANINGFUL INFO
2 Datasets with numerous columns:
49 for the objects , 25 for the places.
Which information can be useful ?
- location
- name or short description
- category
- dates of creation / renovation
Quality of data :
- Defined IDs
- Columns manually populated without pre-defined values
- Duplicates entries
- New columns: geolocation, simplified type
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DEVELOPMENT
STATUS & FUTURE
How the map works
Andrea’s degree thesis
Possible technical expansions
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CONSIDERATIONS
Explore in depth objects dataset
Integrate with Social Network
Responsive version
Publish somewhere sooner or later
=> open community for guided tours
=> image driven app for heritage hunters
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ThankYou
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