Showing the Past: Integrating Cartographic Collections Through Virtual Map Rooms

Willington Siabato, Alberto Fernández-Wyttenbach and Miguel-Ángel Bernabé-Poveda
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Willington Siabato: Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Alberto Fernández-Wyttenbach: Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Miguel-Ángel Bernabé-Poveda: Technical University of Madrid, Spain

International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR), 2011, vol. 2, issue 4, 93-108

Abstract: Spatial Data Infrastructures have become a methodological and technological benchmark enabling distributed access to historical-cartographic archives. However, it is essential to offer enhanced 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 for managing, querying, and accessing distributed georeferenced resources and other content types such as scientific data or information. 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.

Date: 2011
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