Ifigenia Vardakosta, Neah Ingram-Monteiro, Jessica Benner, Jo-Ann Wong
{"title":"Best Paper of the Year Award for Volume 18","authors":"Ifigenia Vardakosta, Neah Ingram-Monteiro, Jessica Benner, Jo-Ann Wong","doi":"10.1080/15420353.2024.2373007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2024.2373007","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Journal of Map & Geography Libraries: Advances in Geospatial Information, Collections & Archives (Vol. 19, No. 3, 2023)","PeriodicalId":54009,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Map & Geography Libraries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141608962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mikuláš Muroň, František Dařena, David Procházka, Roman Kern
{"title":"User-Driven Toponym Disambiguation Using Dialogue","authors":"Mikuláš Muroň, František Dařena, David Procházka, Roman Kern","doi":"10.1080/15420353.2024.2363212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2024.2363212","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents a novel method for processing information with a spatial component or querying geospatial databases. It proposes an interactive toponym disambiguation method tailored especially ...","PeriodicalId":54009,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Map & Geography Libraries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141549694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of Placename Geoparsers","authors":"Jeremy Kenyon, Jason W. Karl, Bruce Godfrey","doi":"10.1080/15420353.2024.2357115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2024.2357115","url":null,"abstract":"This study analyzes the results of six natural-language-processing geoparsing tools, using a set of 120 articles, to determine which would be most useful to incorporate into Journalmap.org, a scien...","PeriodicalId":54009,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Map & Geography Libraries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141549695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatial Hypertexts or Hypermaps: A Proposal for using Maps as Hypertexts in Geo-Spatial Archives","authors":"Jyothi Justin, Nirmala Menon","doi":"10.1080/15420353.2024.2339866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2024.2339866","url":null,"abstract":"Geo-spatial archives, especially in the context of DH, are seldom defined and studied. Though there are works on geo-spatial archives in DH (Foley, 2015), a proper definition and characteristics of...","PeriodicalId":54009,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Map & Geography Libraries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140615682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alicia Urquidi Diaz, Simay Kırca, Andrew Schuldt, Stephen Chignell
{"title":"‘Spatializing’ Travel Narratives in the Belgrade Forest Project: Grounded Methods and Reflexive Strategies for Interdisciplinary Collaboration","authors":"Alicia Urquidi Diaz, Simay Kırca, Andrew Schuldt, Stephen Chignell","doi":"10.1080/15420353.2024.2328208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2024.2328208","url":null,"abstract":"The Belgrade Forest Project explores the history of a 5,550-ha forest in the northern suburbs of European Istanbul. The first stage of the project involved creating a reproducible strategy for extr...","PeriodicalId":54009,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Map & Geography Libraries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140570376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Managing Scholarly Outputs in a Proprietary Platform: Exploring the Implications of Esri Story Maps for Spatial Digital Humanities Preservation","authors":"Melinda Kernik","doi":"10.1080/15420353.2024.2335381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2024.2335381","url":null,"abstract":"Spatial digital humanities projects often struggle with sustainability and preservation. Interactive, engaging websites require consistent maintenance to function well. As a result, projects rise a...","PeriodicalId":54009,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Map & Geography Libraries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140570469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward a Georeferencing Commons: A Crowdsourcing Case Study and the Creation of OldInsuranceMaps.net","authors":"Adam Cox","doi":"10.1080/15420353.2024.2326812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2024.2326812","url":null,"abstract":"As institutional archives digitize their historical map collections and make them publicly available online, researchers and members of the public can pursue new methods of engagement with the mate...","PeriodicalId":54009,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Map & Geography Libraries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140198307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Where Are We Now? Development of the Online Guide to U.S. Map Collections","authors":"C. McAuliffe, K. Plassche","doi":"10.1080/15420353.2023.2189646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2023.2189646","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The progression from print directories to an online database is a natural and clear direction for map collection discovery. Moving this information to a virtual environment that anybody can access and update has many benefits. However, the path to develop this online resource has been fraught with challenges that had to be overcome to bring this vision to reality and to create a sustainable and comprehensive guide that is relevant for many years to come. This article looks at the history of print directories for locating map collections and outlines the development and implementation of the Online Guide to U.S. Map Collections, as well as the ongoing work to expand the Online Guide and its potential to impact future initiatives.","PeriodicalId":54009,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Map & Geography Libraries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73455195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Piekielek, Grace Brittany Waltemate, K. Schuckman
{"title":"Evaluating Software Tools to Orthorectify Archival Aerial Photographs","authors":"N. Piekielek, Grace Brittany Waltemate, K. Schuckman","doi":"10.1080/15420353.2023.2219257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2023.2219257","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Archival aerial photographs are among the most common, voluminous, and frequently used collections in map and geography libraries because of the unique and important spatial information that they contain. They are, however, an underutilized resource because they are challenging to work with and due to misconceptions about their quality. Therefore, developing efficient workflows to convert archival aerial photographs into research-quality digital spatial data is an important next step in making them accessible to a broad range of potential users. The present study tested three software to georeference, orthorectify, and mosaic 15 digitized archival photographs. Using positional accuracy and aesthetics of output mosaics as measures of software performance, all three completed the task impressively well. Output image spatial resolution and positional accuracy were found to be comparable to common public-domain contemporary aerial photography datasets like those produced by the National Agricultural Imagery Program. We also assessed software ease of use by geospatial professionals who were not trained photogrammetrists and found all three to be accessible with care and training resources. The software tools to efficiently convert archival aerial photographs into research-quality digital spatial data have finally matured to the point where collection managers can reasonably consider collection scale conversion projects.","PeriodicalId":54009,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Map & Geography Libraries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77082949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Suqin Zhang, Shirley V. Baros, K. Benedict, H. Barrett
{"title":"New Mexico’s Major Initiative on Digitizing, Archiving, and Web-Publishing Historical Aerial Photos","authors":"Suqin Zhang, Shirley V. Baros, K. Benedict, H. Barrett","doi":"10.1080/15420353.2022.2139789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2022.2139789","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":54009,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Map & Geography Libraries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80918155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}