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Geolocating and Georeferencing: GIS Tools for Ancient Maps Visualisation

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DOI:10.1109/IV.2009.96
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Authors: Chias Pilar / Abad Tomas

Extracted Abstract:

The e-Library on Ancient Spanish Cartography has been created inside the frame set by the European Union about the Europe’s digital cultural heritage to give a response to the real demand among citizens and within the research community. With this aim we have applied the most advanced information and communication technologies (ICTs) to make ancient Spanish maps and views accessible through Internet. On a first stage we have built a relational multiformat and multilingual database that included high resolution images of the cartographic documents and that supported the online accessibility structured by levels. This platform has been recently improved by implementing an open GIS based on the data sets of the e-Library. GIS tools have enlarged the usability of the system as the traditional geolocation searches are now completed with the queries based on maps’ georeferencing. The GIS on Ancient Spanish Maps suggests a new concept in digital map libraries. Keywords- GIS, Cartographic Heritage, Digital Libraries, Online accessibility, Multilingual and Multiformat Databases 1.

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  • Papers must discuss situated information visualization* (by Willet et al.) in the application domain of CH.
    *A situated data representation is a data representation whose physical presentation is located close to the data’s physical referent(s).
    *A situated visualization is a situated data representation for which the presentation is purely visual – and is typically displayed on a screen.
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  • Papers focused solely on digital reconstruction without information visualization aspects are excluded.
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