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
Collecting digital cartographic data in utrecht storage and accessibility
Nov 10, 2014
by Marco van Egmond. Map Curator, Utrecht University Library
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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
- 8. Forms of digital cartographic data
- Maps from the internet
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- Examples: Social atlases Almere, Steenwijkerland
- 9. Forms of digital cartographic data
- 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
- National level:
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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!
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