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LIBER GdC Working Group for Education. Report for the Tallinn Conference, June 2010. LIBER GdC Working Group for Education. New webmaster: Dariusz (Darek) Przybytek dprzybytek@hotmail.com. LIBER GdC Working Group for Education. New website: http://www.libermaps.buwr.pl/information/
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LIBER GdCWorking Group for Education Report for the Tallinn Conference, June 2010
LIBER GdCWorking Group for Education New webmaster: Dariusz (Darek) Przybytek dprzybytek@hotmail.com
LIBER GdCWorking Group for Education • New website: • http://www.libermaps.buwr.pl/information/ • Tri-lingual: English, German and Polish • Institutions • Tutorials • Literature • Who is who • Links • Contact • Updating is required in all sections, so please consult the • pages and alert Darek to any alterations
LIBER GdCWorking Group for Education Items discussed in Amsterdam • Geodesy • Education by map librarians • “Who is who” • Graphic indexes
LIBER GdCWorking Group for Education Geodesy: Basic geodesy for map librarians NGA basic terms of geodesy (new articles still being written): http://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/coordsys/geoarticles/geoarticles.html Geodetic surveying 1807-1940: http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/geodetic_survey_1807.html Geodetic surveying 1940-1990: http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/geodetic_surveying_1940.html Source: Matt Shimmell via David Watt
LIBER GdCWorking Group for Education Education by map librarians ‘Education by map librarians’ (instead of only ‘education for map librarians’) The website of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (made for schools and teachers) is recommended: http://classes.bnf.fr/classes/pages/inddoss.htm Thanks to: Hélène Richard,Martijn Storms and Ruth Kalf
LIBER GdCWorking Group for Education “Who is who” Post-Amsterdam updates have been limited, restricted to our Secretary sending out an extended e-mail to all National Correspondents asking for an update to the ‘Who is Who’ for each country - response rates have been disappointing. Should we review the topic headings under which the individual map curators are listed? Are they still relevant to our work? Thanks to: John Moore
LIBER GdCWorking Group for Education Graphic indexes Developments have moved on considerably since Amsterdam. The Charles Close Society website now has a fully functioning graphic index function for the whole of Great Britain, which allows you to roam around and automatically says which sheets of which series cover the point you are hovering over. This was a collaboration between a computing expert linked to a private geodesy site and the National Library of Scotland. Petr Pridal’s Map Tiler, targeted at existing GIS users, and therefore requiring a certain degree of expertise, runs totally on open source software, and is easy to use. For it to work, the end user must supply fully georeferenced data. Petr’s OldMapsOnline service is a four-year project, which involves suggesting a workflow for libraries, and also uses the Zoomify feature. It is based on JPEG2000 and again uses open source software. There is much inbuilt support for map indexing, warping images to fit into Google Maps. Thanks to: Nick Millea, John Moore, Petr Pridal, David Watt
LIBER GdCWorking Group for Education 1) Would any of you like to take these issues further? 2) The Group needs a new Chairman – any volunteers? 3) Thanks for your support over the past few years Nick Millea Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG United Kingdom Tel: +44 1865 287119 Fax: +44 1865 277139 Email: nick.millea@bodleian.ox.ac.uk