New Mexico’s Major Initiative on Digitizing, Archiving, and Web-Publishing Historical Aerial Photos

IF 0.3 Q4 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

Journal of Map & Geography Libraries Pub Date : 2022-09-02 DOI:10.1080/15420353.2022.2139789

Suqin Zhang, Shirley V. Baros, K. Benedict, H. Barrett

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Abstract Historical aerial photos are important historical records, and subsequently, they have been widely used in many fields to study the physical and human characteristics of a place. Unfortunately, most historical aerial photos remain un-digitized and un-georeferenced on aging photographic film rolls, which significantly limits their usefulness for research and practice. This article is dedicated to discussing a funded initiative focusing on digitizing, georeferencing, creating metadata, indexing, archiving, and web-publishing New Mexico’s historical aerial photos. As part of this initiative, a web application was developed to enable online georeferencing to increase georeferencing productivity, bounding box display to present the ground coverage extent of each historical aerial photo, and spatial search to increase the discoverability and use of historical aerial photos. Based on a set of open standards and open source software and libraries, application programming interfaces for the aforementioned web application were also developed and freely shared with archival and record management organizations across the United States to enable them to develop similar web applications, and ultimately, promoting the access and use of historical aerial photos for various purposes.

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新墨西哥州关于数字化、存档和网络发布历史航空照片的主要倡议

摘要历史航拍照片是重要的历史记录，被广泛应用于研究某地的自然和人文特征等诸多领域。不幸的是，大多数历史航拍照片都没有被数字化，也没有在老化的胶卷上进行地理参考，这极大地限制了它们在研究和实践中的实用性。本文致力于讨论一项资助计划，其重点是对新墨西哥州的历史航空照片进行数字化、地理参考、创建元数据、索引、归档和网络发布。作为该计划的一部分，开发了一个web应用程序，使在线地理参考能够提高地理参考的生产力，边界框显示可以显示每张历史航空照片的地面覆盖范围，空间搜索可以增加历史航空照片的可发现性和使用。基于一套开放标准和开源软件和库，开发了上述web应用程序的应用程序编程接口，并与美国各地的档案和记录管理组织免费共享，使他们能够开发类似的web应用程序，最终促进各种用途的历史航空照片的访问和使用。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Map & Geography Libraries is a multidisciplinary publication that covers international research and information on the production, procurement, processing, and utilization of geographic and cartographic materials and geospatial information. Papers submitted undergo a rigorous peer-review process by professors, researchers, and practicing librarians with a passion for geography, cartographic materials, and the mapping and spatial sciences. The journal accepts original theory-based, case study, and practical papers that substantially advance an understanding of the mapping sciences in all of its forms to support users of map and geospatial collections, archives, and similar institutions.