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WISER: 8 February 2010
Nick Millea - on behalf of Nigel James
Digital Mapping SpecialistBodleian Library
Online MapsOnline Mapsandand
Digital MappingDigital Mapping
Maps as a resourcefor research and teaching
Online maps
Scanned images from map collections
Digital mapping / “born digital”
Mapping generated on demand
Digital mapping software and data
Raster mapping
No special software required
Can be inserted directly into a document
Limited modification possible
Widely available on the Internet
Both historic and modern mapping
Maps in the Oxford Digital Library
Around 1000 map images are available
The ODL is bringing together digitalcollections from across the University
Search by mapmaker, title and subject
http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk/collections/index.html
Maps in the Oxford Digital Library
Maps in the Oxford Digital Library
Maps in the Oxford Digital Library
Maps in the Oxford Digital Library
Web resources Worldwide
Websites with map images are everywhere
Content and quality varies considerably
Some sites may be infringing copyright
Links to sites with map images are regularlyadded to the Map Room website
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
11,000 maps online
Modern and historical mapping
Most mapping is public domain
Non-copyright modern mapping is mostlypublished by the US government (CIA, etc)
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
http://bell.lib.umn.edu/hist/
James Ford Bell Library
Other good examples
Environment Agencyhttp://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/
National Library of Scotland Map Libraryhttp://www.nls.uk/maps/index.html
David Rumsey Collectionhttp://www.davidrumsey.com/
EDINA Digimap
http://edina.ac.uk/digimap
Free access to modern and historic Ordnance Survey mapping
Maps can be viewed online, printed or saved and downloaded for use in digital mapping programs
Use is restricted to personal, teaching and research and limited academic publishing
EDINA Digimap
© Crown Copyright
EDINA Digimap
Source: Digimap http://edina.ac.uk/digimap © Crown Copyright
EDINA Digimap
Source: Digimap http://edina.ac.uk/digimap © Crown Copyright
Digital map data in the Bodleian
Great Britain, Europe and World datasets
No charge to University members
Can be extensively modified and adaptedto suit specific needs
Sources of digital map data
Bartholomew digital data
DIGIMAP digital Ordnance Survey data
3 World datasets
Europe dataset
Great Britain dataset
London dataset
Global Insight World data
UKBorders historical boundary data
Maps and data – using a GIS
A GIS (Geographic Information System) is a computer program which enables the creation, editing and viewing of spatial data
Spatial data relates to real world objects – places, roads,rivers, trees…
A GIS is spatially aware – it works with real world
co-ordinates, distances and areas
… and it creates maps!
MapInfo - a GIS anddigital mapping tool
• “The World’s premier desktop mapping application”• MapInfo Professional is a powerful Microsoft® Windows®-
based mapping and geographic analysis application; • Designed to easily visualize the relationships between data
and geography;• Enables discovery of trends hidden in spreadsheets and
charts;• Performs powerful data analysis and calculations;• Creates custom maps and content for analysis
• Works and plays well with existing IT infrastructure• Designed and tested with Windows operating systems;• Imports and exports data in a wide variety of formats
MapInfo - a GIS anddigital mapping tool
MapInfo is a professional and fully functional mappingprogram
It is site-licensed by the University
It can be used by all Departments and University members
It can be installed on any desktop or laptop PC
MapInfo workstations are available in the Bodleian Map Room (New Bodleian Reading Room)
Mapping spatial data using a GIS
A GIS is a database management program – just like Access
Data is stored as records in tables – just like Access
A GIS can interpret spatial referencing and display
data as a map
Adding your own data
Source: http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/index.html
Maps created with digital data using MapInfo
Maps created with digital data using MapInfo
Maps created with digital data using MapInfo
Maps created with digital data using MapInfo
Create high-quality cartography
Students needed for Digging into Data / Digital Mapping Project
The Electronic Enlightenment Project (EEP) is a digital research project of the Bodleian Library. Its online resource, Electronic Enlightenment (www.e-enlightenment.com), reconstructs the web of correspondence that made the long 18th century the birthplace of the modern world. EE’s current offering of 56,500+ letters and 6,600 correspondents links people and ideas across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.
EEP is looking for 2 multilingual students to help in the collection and identification of geographical and personal details in the EE corpus, as part of a JISC/NEH grant for Digging into Data called, “Digging into the Enlightenment: Mapping the Republic of Letters” (awarded jointly to EEP and the Humanities Research Centre at Stanford University).
From the details “mined” from the corpus, we will build multilingual thesauri of word-forms (EE contains historical documents in nearly a dozen languages). The finished token list will be mapped against standardized authority lists such as the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN), in order to provide a public gazetteer of locations. This will enable the project to build and test methods, gazetteers and tools which would allow users to identify, define and link more data from EE’s and other data-sets, as well as being fed into the overlay mapping (static and dynamic) systems being developed jointly between Oxford and Stanford.
If interested, please contact Dr Robert V. McNamee, Director, Electronic Enlightenment Project — phone number, email
address to be found in accompanying handouts
Bodleian LibraryMap Room
University of OxfordBroad Street
OxfordOX1 3BG
Tel: 01865 277013Fax: 01865 277139
Email: [email protected]
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/guides/maps/
