Digital Approaches

to Cartographic Heritage

 

8th International Workshop
Rome, 19-20 September 2013

 

   

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Participants and focus

This Workshop is addressed to scholars, researchers, map-curators, map-collectors, map-librarians, administrators, digital industry / market operators and students coming from different cultural and educational backgrounds (humanistic, scientific, arts and engineering) whose work is either focused on or affined to cartographic heritage. The Workshop will offer a common ground to colleagues from various disciplines and practice where they can meet, interact and exchange knowledge, experience, plans and ideas on how the digital revolution and modern information and communication technologies can or could be used and contribute to cartographic heritage in terms of acquisition, processing visualization and communication of relevant digital data.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Organised by

 

Sessions

In general, the sessions’ items will follow the Commission’s terms of reference [2011-2015].

• Introduce and establish the concept of "cartographic

heritage". The multidisciplinary dimension of cartographic heritage.

• Transformation into digital form of old maps, globes and other cartographic documents. Comparison of digitization methods and technologies and development of relevant standards. 

ICA Commission Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage

SGI - Societŕ Geografica Italiana

• Applications of digital techniques to the cartographic study (analysis and interpretation) of old maps and their geometric and thematic content. Tests of various analytic processes and visualization.

• Development and management of digital map libraries accessible to the general public. Digital tools to assist map curators, to aid the networking of map libraries and to allow in-situ and remote virtual access to cartographic heritage.

Supported by

 

• Digital support for the preservation and restoration of old maps, atlases and globes.

• The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the web for the teaching and for the diffusion of the heritage of cartography and maps to the general public.

Commission supported by

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Eötvös Loránd University

Institut Cartogrŕfic de Catalunya

National Library of Scotland

Universitŕ IUAV di Venezia

• The ‘digital needs’ of individual map collectors.

Scanners for proper digitalization: state of the art and perspectives.
 

Papers

The paper abstracts should be e-mailed by June 15, 2013. Full papers, not exceeding 5.000 words, should be e-mailed by July 10, 2013.

 

Proceedings

The full papers will be included in the Workshop’s CD-ROM, available to all participants. Selected papers will be also published in e-Perimetron, the international web journal on sciences and technologies affined to history of cartography and maps [ISSN 1790-3769] http://www.e-perimetron.org, according to the journal’s editorial policy.

 

Language

The Workshop language is English. Papers to be published in e-Perimetron can be also written in French according to the journal’s editorial policy.

 

Registration Free