Collecting digital cartographic data in utrecht storage and accessibility
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07/02/22 1 Collecting digital cartographic data Collecting digital cartographic data in Utrecht: storage and in Utrecht: storage and accessibility accessibility Marco van Egmond Marco van Egmond Map Curators’ Group of the Map Curators’ Group of the British Cartographic Society, Cambridge 2010 British Cartographic Society, Cambridge 2010
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- 1. Collecting digital cartographic data in Utrecht: storage and
accessibility
- Marco van Egmond
- Map Curators Group of the
- British Cartographic Society, Cambridge 2010
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- 3. Cartographic documents in digital format
- Increasing number; born-digital + scanned digital images:
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- Floppy disks
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- CDs/DVDs
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- Internet
- 4. Content of the paper
- Various forms of digital cartographic data
- Archiving and accessibility in Utrecht
- Problems and restrictions
- Future developments and solutions
- 5. Content of the paper
- Various forms of digital cartographic data
- Archiving and accessibility in Utrecht
- Problems and restrictions
- Future developments and solutions
- 6. Forms of digital cartographic data
- Floppy disks
- CDs/DVDs
- 7. Forms of digital cartographic data
- Maps from the internet
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- Examples: Zorgatlas National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM); portals of provinces
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- Maps from the internet
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- Examples: Social atlases Almere, Steenwijkerland
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- Maps from the internet
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- Browse and search:
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- Oddens Bookmarks
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- Google Images
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- Map History/History of Cartography
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- Digmap
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- Google Maps Google Books
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- 10. Forms of digital cartographic data
- Disadvantages with maps from the internet
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- Dead links
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- Volatile character of the data/sites
- Utrecht: downloading files on special server
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- Ready-to-use
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- Durable storage
- 11. Forms of digital cartographic data
- 12. Forms of digital cartographic data
- Digitized analogue maps
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- Recent maps, usually copyrighted
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- Files on server only for education and research purposes
- 13. Forms of digital cartographic data
- Cartographic databases
- (f.i. Topographical Survey)
- 14. Content of the paper
- Various forms of digital cartographic data
- Archiving and accessibility in Utrecht
- Problems and restrictions
- Future developments and solutions
- 15. Preservation and accessibility
- Central storage of data
- Approach and management from a distance
- Consultation in a.o. the map library
- 16. Preservation of floppydisks and CDs/DVDs
- Floppydisks -> VFD files
- CDs/DVDs -> ISO files
- Files on server: readable through Virtual PC software
- 17. Content of the paper
- Various forms of digital cartographic data
- Archiving and accessibility in Utrecht
- Problems and restrictions
- Future developments and solutions
- 18. Problems and restrictions accessibility
- Surpassed analogue collection
- 250.000 digital files
- simple geographic and thematic file structure:
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- Continent > Country > Theme
- 19. Problems and restrictions accessibility
- 20. Problems and restrictions accessibility
- 21. Problems and restrictions accessibility
- 22. Problems and restrictions
- Legal implications
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- Agreements with copyright owners
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- Home copies publishing
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- Preservation copies
- Disadvantageous position online electronic library
- Opt out solution?
- 23. Content of the paper
- Various forms of digital cartographic data
- Archiving and accessibility in Utrecht
- Problems and restrictions
- Future developments and solutions
- 24. Future developments and solutions
- Local initiatives:
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- Geoloket , Delft
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- Geodesk , Wageningen
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- Geoloketten
- Cooperation?
- Possibillities for cataloguing?
- 25. Future developments and solutions
- Central storage of data on a national or international level
- Cataloguing by participating institutes
- Netherlands: Archives, Royal Library, DANS
- UK: Edina
- 26. Future developments and solutions
- Changing role of map librarian and map collection
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- Information manager
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- Map collections junctions in cartographic information supply
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- Collection and archiving of digital cartographic data task of a map library
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- Cataloguing of the data deserves national or international effort
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- Better legal conditions
- 27. Future developments and solutions
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- Thank you for your attention!