Overview

• Cropping of the scanned documents.
• Cleaning and parsing of metadata obtained from The Lincoln Log and Archives (Lat, Lng, places, ASCII characters, populating MySQL Database etc.).
• Geo-referencing and re-projection of the historical maps.
• Fusing additional information layers including document annotation (e.g., historical maps and cross-links to the Abraham Lincoln log - a daily chronology).
• Designing and programming a multidimensional web-based interface and it's underlying architecture (based on the Google Maps API and Database Ajax/Javascript requests using PHP and MySQL).
• The prototype URL: http://isda.ncsa.uiuc.edu/lpapers/search.html