cartomundi online promotion of cartographic heritage
DESCRIPTION
CartoMundi is an international online system dedicated to the promotion of the cartographic heritage. Every institution holding, producing or selling cartographic documents can use CartoMundi. Its main tool is a collaborative trilingual website in English, French and Spanish. It combines georeferenced database with a graphic interface based on an interactive planisphere. Firstly devised to meet libraries, researchers and students needs, CartoMundi can also be of interest for other fields like edition, exploitation of natural resources and tourism. An International Collective Catalogue While most books can be found through computerised catalogues, cartographic documentation is scarcely referenced on the Internet. Despite the development of digitalisation, the absence of a specific tool for dealing with this heritage is becoming problematic. The scheme CartoMundi intends to fill in this void through a new device: a website with an international collective catalogue. The combination of map curators and geomaticians knowhow, offers satisfactions to the librarians and to the readers who are researching for maps by their location. Sharing and Mutualising knowledge CartoMundi is based on mutualising data and howknow. Through a state of the production, description of each document is made available to partners who register their state of collection in the collective catalog. This organization gives way to important cost-cuts for all the partners. It also offers increased visibility of their collection through an international website. Promoting the use of Cartography This system will not replace existing catalogues. It supplements them.Through encouraging the exchange and gathering of cartographic knowledge on an international scale, CartoMundi facilitates smoother relations between map users and institutions who hold them. The possibility of visualising the perimeter of each map will contribute to renew their use and to develop new questions in a variety of fields such as geology, archaeology, geography, economics and history of social sciences, etc.TRANSCRIPT
Jean-Luc ARNAUDSenior Researcher at CNRS
Online promotion of Cartographic Heritage
22-10-2012
Supported by Aix-Marseille University, and the National Centre for Scientific research (CNRS)
Developped by The Mediterranean House for Social Sciences (MMSH) – Aix-en-Provence
With the support of the French National Library and the National Geographic Intitute (IGN)
MMSH
1. Observation
2. Principles
3. Website
Three Chapters
11. Observation
2. Principles
3. Website
Maps : 15 % Books : 90 %
CartoMundi results of a question
Why this différence ?
NumericalCatalogues
Uncomplete and non useful metadata
A same systemof cataloguing
Created forbooks
Adapted formaps
Because, looking for a map is, first, searching a place
Rejected by themap librarians
They preferTraditional
tools
Results :
When we start in mass digitization
There is not numerical catalogues
Emergency for cartographic series
2.11. Observation
2. Principles
2.1. Geographical Location
CartoMundi a tool for researches by geographical location
To each card we addthe description of theperimeter representedby the correspondentdocument
Geographic Field
The geographic field
This field is generatedby a GeographicalInformation System
M a i n p r i n c i p l e s
This field can be requested bygeographical question and returna list of maps
List of maps wich represent the selected place
The geographic field
M a i n p r i n c i p l e s
Geographic Field
It can be displayed on aplanisphere
List of maps wich represent the selected place
The geographic field
M a i n p r i n c i p l e s
Geographic Field
Digitized sheet indexes
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M a i n p r i n c i p l e s
Digitized sheet indexes
Showing a state of collection
M a i n p r i n c i p l e s
P r i n c i p e s g é n é r a u x
Digitized sheet indexes
Showing a state of collectionFinding the call number of a sheet
Showing a state of collectionFinding the call number of a sheetSelecting a reproduction
Digitized sheet indexes
M a i n p r i n c i p l e s
2.21. Observation
2. Principles
2.1. Geographical location
2.2 A structure for a collective
catalogue
Le catalogue is organized from three main databases
DirectoryDescription of the establishements
Open to the map libraries, the Producer and the reselers.
Succeed to the IFLA directory (Loiseaux 2000), obsolete
Three databases
State of the productionDescriptions of the series
Gathers the generic descriptions of the series. For each referenced series , it provides a description of all of its published sheets
Directory
Three databases
Collective catalogue
State of the production
Directory
Three databases
The collective catalogue is at the crossroad between the State of the production and the Directory
Each record of the collective catalogue is, at first, a link between the State of the production and the Directory
2.31. Observation
2. Principles
2.1. Geographical Localion
2.2 A structure for a collective catalogue
2.3. A tool to share information
CartoMundi is not only a collectivecatalogue. It is also a tool to shareInformation.
1. Serving partners, to fill the localcatalogues.
Each recording takes place in threestages.
A process in three stages
Partner CartoMundi
Localcatalogue
1. Recording astate of
collection
Direct recording
Tools to import
Partner CartoMundi
Cataloguelocal
2. Exporting anTXT file
Direct recording
Tools to import
TXTfile
A process in three stages
Partner CartoMundi
Localcatalogue
3. Importing theTXT file in the
local catalogue
Direct recording
Tools to import
TXTfile
Conversion
A process in three stages
CartoMundi is not only a collectivecatalogue. It is also a tool to shareInformation.
1. Serving partners, to fill the localcatalogues.
2. For other establishments,through a OAI-PMH repository.
Copyrights
The recording of an information by a partner alows CartoMundi to :
1. Publish this information
2. Export this information for another partner
3. Keep these rights after the end of the contract
2.41. Observation
2. Principles
2.1. Geographical Location
2.2 A structure for a collective catalogue 2.3. A tool to share information
2.4. Charged services
Distribution of the costs
CartoMundi is not trying to generatebenefits. The fees cover the cost ofuser support and system maintenance.
CartoMundi is free of charge for thesurfers.
The costs are distributed according toeach participation.
Directory
Collective catalogue
State of the production
Charged annually
Price cut
Free of charge
Distribution of the costs
31. Observation
2. Principles
3. Website
