Progress towards Old Maps Online launch - 2

The past two weeks has seen work continue on testing the functionality of the MapRank Search software on the new server.We've also been working on supporting documentation for the launch. We have been discussing press releases with the marketing people and creating draft versions of our Terms of Use and Frequently Asked Questions to help site users once we go live. The design of the launch flyers was completed and these have returned from the printers, we are sending them out for conference delegate packs as I type.

We have now started to advertise all the events where we will launch/present the website. For ease of reference a synopsis of these is given below. Please see the relevant blog posting/event website for more details about individual events.

• 25/02/2012 New York, USA: Workshop "Working Digitally with Historical Maps"
• 29/02/2012 London, UK: The Gerald Alymer Seminar "Locating the Past"
• 21/03/2012 London, UK: Meeting "UK Archives Discovery Forum"
• 11-14/04/2012 Glasgow, UK: European Social Science History Conference 
• 17-18/04/2012 Barcelona, Spain: LIBER Conference "Map libraries in a changing world"
• 19-20/04/2012 Barcelona, Spain: ICA Workshop "Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage"
• 2-4/05/2012 Ávila, Spain: ESF Workshop "Conceptualising European Landscapes across languages, cultures and Disciplines"
• 27-30/06/2012 Albuquerque, USA: World History Association Conference "Frontiers and Borders in World History"
• 16-22/07/2012 Hamburg, Germany: Digitial Humanities 2012 Conference