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Jeannette L. Zerneke, Michael K. Buckland & Kim Carl
Temporally Dynamic Maps: The Electronic Cultural Atlas
Initiative Experience
Affiliation: University of
California, Berkeley
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Keywords: time, cultural maps,
temporally dynamic maps, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative,
ECAI, library catalogs, gazetteers
Abstract:
Understanding context is
important in the humanities and social sciences. Temporally
dynamic maps provide a framework for showing and analyzing
context in terms of what was happening around a particular
time and place. Such maps are investigated in the Electronic
Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI), an informal international
collaboration of educators, researchers, librarians, and
information technology specialists, based at the University of
California, Berkeley. In addition to organizing conferences
and advocating the development of standards and best
practices, ECAI has participated in the creation of several
multimedia publications that include temporally dynamic maps.
This article describes the experiences that have been gained
in the work with dynamic maps to enhance the display of
catalog search results and to express geographical aspects of
search queries, as well as with gazetteers that are used for
linking between text and maps. The ECAI experiences have also
resulted in the identification of numerous problems concerning
the completeness, documentation, authenticity, and
preservation of geo-temporal data, problems that are discussed
in the article.
The article may be referenced as
Zerneke, Jeannette L., Michael K. Buckland & Kim Carl.
“Temporally Dynamic Maps: The
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative Experience.”
Human IT 8.3
(2006): 83–94. <http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/3-8/jzmbkc.pdf>
