WISER: 8 February 2010 Nick Millea - on behalf of Nigel James Digital Mapping Specialist Bodleian Library Online Maps and Digital Mapping

Maps as a resource for 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 digital collections from across the University Search by mapmaker, title and subject

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 regularly added 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 mostly published by the US government (CIA, etc)

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

James Ford Bell Library

Other good examples Environment Agency National Library of Scotland Map Library David Rumsey Collection

EDINA 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 © Crown Copyright

EDINA Digimap Source: 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 adapted to suit specific needs

Digital map data

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 and digital 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 and digital mapping tool MapInfo is a professional and fully functional mapping program 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:

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 ( 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, address to be found in accompanying handouts

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