Showing the past: Integrating cartographic collections through virtual map rooms

Abstract:

Spatial Data Infrastructures have become a methodological and technological benchmark enabling distributed access to historical-cartographic archives. However, it is essential to offeRenhanced virtual tools that imitate the current processes and methodologies that are carried out by librarians, historians and academics in the existing map libraries around the world. These virtual processes must be supported by a generic framework foRmanaging, querying, and accessing distributed georeferenced resources and otheRcontent types such as scientific data oRinformation. The authors have designed and developed support tools to provide enriched browsing, measurement and geometrical analysis capabilities, and dynamical querying methods, based on SDI foundations. The DIGMAP engine and the IBERCARTO collection enable access to georeferenced historical-cartographical archives. Based on lessons learned from the CartoVIRTUAL and DynCoopNet projects, a generic service architecture scheme is proposed. This way, it is possible to achieve the integration of virtual map rooms and SDI technologies bringing support to researchers within the historical and social domains. © 2011 IGI Global.

Año de publicación:

2011

Keywords:

• Map Library
• SDI
• History
• Early Map
• cartography
• Digital library

Fuente:

scopus