Tagging the source

[daelba]

During our discussion in Prague, @jeffreyameyer placed great emphasis on tagging the source. As a historian, I understand this demand very well and agree with it. However, the thing is, how to tag the source.

Now, I tag objects source=mza:d9 (example: http://www.openhistoricalmap.org/way/198280706). The explanation of the "mza:d9" value is here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Historical_Map/Projects/Indication_Sketches. I understand very well, that such tagging is not perfect, so I have few hints, how to improve it.

Description web page
When you see the tag box at the page http://www.openhistoricalmap.org/way/198280706, the "source" key is linked to wiki-OSM (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:source?uselang=cs). We can create a own web page (at wiki-OSM?), where all sources (abbreviations) will be described.

Linking
Another option is to provide hyperlink to the source map. In this case: https://www.mza.cz/indikacniskici/index.php#show:MOR080818300. However the hyperlink can be broken in future.

Whole source
We can also provide both, a full source description and a hyperlink. For example:
Moravský zemský archiv, D9 Indikační skici, sig. MOR080818300; https://www.mza.cz/indikacniskici/index.php#show:MOR080818300

[jeffreyameyer]

Daniel - this is awesome! Please allow me some time to respond & look forward to other input from any mapping historians.

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[rwarren2]

Daniel,

Suggest that you use link to whatever is appropriate. I personally prefer a link since that keeps the door open to machine-readable handling, a number of other people prefer a full human readable citation which is perfectly fine too.