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{"title":"The Evolution of GIS Services within North American Academic Libraries: Documenting Change through the Decades (1995–2016)","authors":"Greg March, Edith A. Scarletto","doi":"10.1080/15420353.2017.1313803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2017.1313803","url":null,"abstract":"This review was conducted to identify articles written about Geographic Information Systems (GIS) services offered in the United States (US) and Canadian university and college libraries. In the early 1990's, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) GIS Literacy Project, in partnership with Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), helped enable ARL member libraries to create GIS services within their libraries. By the mid to late 1990's, librarians from academic institutions began to write articles that discussed how their library developed GIS services and the components involved with operating a GIS service. Writing about GIS services in academic libraries continued on into the 2000's and 2010's. This review of the literature will document the areas of staffing, service, technology, and data provision for GIS service units from three decades (1990's, 2000's, and 2010's).","PeriodicalId":54009,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Map & Geography Libraries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15420353.2017.1313803","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42914769","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":"Protected Places: A Survey of Laws on Archaeological Site and Cave Location Confidentiality and Their Potential Impact on Library Reference Policies and Services","authors":"Linda R. Zellmer","doi":"10.1080/15420353.2016.1249446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2016.1249446","url":null,"abstract":"Librarians who work with maps and other forms of spatial information are often asked for information about the location of a place. These questions can range from the location of a village or farm where an ancestor lived to more cryptic questions, such as the location of the Garden of Eden based on its Biblical description. Most librarians will attempt to answer locational questions by directing users to resources such as gazetteers, atlases, maps, and plat books. However, the locations of archaeological sites and caves are protected by federal and state laws. This article provides a summary of federal and state laws protecting archaeological sites and caves, the reasons for the laws, issues to consider when asked for locations of archaeological sites and caves, and additionally, suggests a policy for dealing with users requesting information about archaeological sites and caves.","PeriodicalId":54009,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Map & Geography Libraries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15420353.2016.1249446","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42881688","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":"Best Paper of the Year Award for Volume 12","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/15420353.2017.1335264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2017.1335264","url":null,"abstract":"The three issues published in 2016 of the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries hold a wealth of thought-provoking and valuable information. As we do each year, we have the challenge to select one article that stands out above the others and is named our Best Paper. It gives the editors of the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries great pleasure to announce that the article, “Putting the World in Its ‘Proper Colour’: Exploring Hand-Coloring in Early Modern Maps,” by Stephanie Elizabeth Stillo has been chosen for the Best Paper Award for volume 12. As Stillo explains in her abstract, “This article explores the utility of X-Ray Florescence (XRF) in identifying pigments used in early modern hand-colored prints. Published accounts of the use of XRF on hand-colored documents are rare. As a consequence, historians and conservators know little about the pigments used in hand-colored prints, information that is not only vital for the preservation of extant colored documents, but also essential for helping historians periodize hand-coloring and assess its usage.” This study compared early modern coloring manuals with XRF analysis of printed and hand-colored cartographic compilations from Amsterdam and London. “The combination of textual and technological analysis resulted in a more nuanced understanding of the materials used in hand-coloring prints in early modern Europe. The study also exposed surprising actors in the history of the analyzed documents, highlighting the exciting potential of XRF to verify the historical authenticity of hand-coloring.” One of the strengths of this article is the human side. It combines the scientific inquiry into types of pigments used in the hand-coloring process, what they are made of, and even “cataloging” them based on colors generated with the role that women played in this enterprise and industry. “Putting the World in Its ‘Proper Colour’ ... describes how X-Ray Flourescence (XRF) can help librarians and archivists address the questions of provenance and authorship of hand-colored maps. It also illustrates [the] potential of collaborations between the STEM fields and the humanities.” By using two historical atlases as examples for testing purposes, Stillo details the use of a newer form of spectrometry to detail the elements involved for different pigment types that has little information about this process in the literature. Further, she delves into the social aspects such as how hand-coloring became a broader “hobby” over time as much as a special niche in the cartographic world. This paper fills a void in the literature about hand-coloring as a cartographic technique.","PeriodicalId":54009,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Map & Geography Libraries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15420353.2017.1335264","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46595185","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":"An Integrated Spatial Search Engine for Maps and Aerial Photographs on a Google Maps API Platform","authors":"T. Ganor","doi":"10.1080/15420353.2016.1277574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2016.1277574","url":null,"abstract":"A traditional library catalog does not do justice to maps and aerial photographs. Text can never fully describe them and maps' and aerial photographs' geographic coverage or perimeters cannot be displayed visually in the online public access catalog (OPAC), so searching based on their textual metadata without specific spatial reference data used also for display purposes is often not enough to locate relevant items. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem's (HUJI) Geography Department has developed a spatial search engine for their scanned aerial photographs collection that allows users to locate one or more aerial photographs according to the area of the Earth's surface that was photographed and their accompanying metadata. The Humanities and Social Sciences Library, which holds a large unscanned print map collection, has asked to integrate a similar map search mechanism in the Department's existing search engine, and a new website was launched in December 2015 (http://ccg.huji.ac.il/aerialphotos/) showing the aerial photographs' center points alongside the maps' rectangle perimeter. The search engine retrieves maps and aerial photographs that intersect with a user-drawn rectangle. This article discusses the characteristics of these collections, the rationale behind searching for maps and aerial photographs together, and the process of defining and building this spatial search engine. This method allows users to view which items are available in their area of interest side-by-side, on a Google Maps background map.","PeriodicalId":54009,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Map & Geography Libraries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15420353.2016.1277574","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44471992","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":"Editorial","authors":"Paige G. Andrew, Katherine H. Weimer","doi":"10.1080/15420353.2017.1340702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2017.1340702","url":null,"abstract":"Many of our readers will be aware of efforts to “save” data. Data rescue events have cropped up at libraries across the US and Canada. Through these events, libraries are working to actively store federal data. These events also serve to create awareness of the fragile nature of data, and the roles that libraries have to obtain, organize, and preserve data of all types. Numerous collaborations have been created that seek near term and long term solutions, among them, Data Refuge1, Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS)2, Preservation of Electronic Government information (PEGI)3, and Libraries + Network4. We encourage our readers to learn more, reach out to these and other like-minded groups, and to work together toward long term data preservation solutions. While the current issue isn’t about data rescue efforts directly, it is about continuing to grow scholarship centered on geospatial data and information. Issue two contains a range of diverse geospatial topics and from a wide range of locations as well. These international perspectives are among the strengths of the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries. Another strength is in the diversity of research that is presented, in this case from working with access to aerial photograph collections to descriptive cataloging to learning ways in which to help protect sensitive natural and cultural sites in our daily work. In Protected Places: A Survey of Laws on Archaeological Site and Cave Location Confidentiality and Their Potential Impact on Library Reference Policies and Services, Linda Zellmer shares her experiences with this littlediscussed but ethically driven aspect to map librarianship. This detailed article includes information about a range of federal and state laws in the United States pertaining to locations of natural and civilization resources and archaeological sites of historical and research value. Zellmer provides a set of recommendations for library staff that assist researchers who seek information about these special locations. This compilation of the legal history and present laws in this regard and their implications in a library setting may be the first of its kind. We hope that this research stimulates thought and action across the library community to everyone’s benefit. Another intriguing article in this issue is from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, focusing on discovery and access to aerial photographs. Tamar Ganor’s An Integrated Spatial Search Engine for Maps and Aerial Photographs on a Google Maps API Platform provides details into a unique spatial search application. This article also highlights a partnership between","PeriodicalId":54009,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Map & Geography Libraries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15420353.2017.1340702","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44596800","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":"Linking Spatial Named Entities to the Web of Data for Geographical Analysis of Historical Texts","authors":"Pierre-Henri Paris, N. Abadie, Carmen Brando","doi":"10.1080/15420353.2017.1307306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2017.1307306","url":null,"abstract":"In our work, we are interested in facilitating the exploration by scholars of the geography of texts: in particular, historical narrative texts describing routes. Semantic annotation constitutes the first step to enrich such text with the necessary information for producing analytical maps. The present article focuses on the disambiguation of spatial named entities (SNE) by the attribution of an identifier of the ever-growing Web of Data. This giant knowledge base (KB) provides qualitative spatial information about geographic entities, in particular spatial relations such as (:Paris :southOf :Lille), (:Paris :country :France). We thus propose a graph-matching algorithm relying on the A* algorithm and graph-edit distances for choosing the best referent in the KB for the SNE. We performed preliminary experiments and noted the clear gain in performance. We propose some examples of maps that are built semi-automatically. Finally, we draw conclusions and describe our plans of future work.","PeriodicalId":54009,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Map & Geography Libraries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15420353.2017.1307306","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45034359","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":"Linked Data Annotation Without the Pointy Brackets: Introducing Recogito 2","authors":"Rainer Simon, Elton T. E. Barker, L. Isaksen, Pau De Soto CaÑamares","doi":"10.1080/15420353.2017.1307303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2017.1307303","url":null,"abstract":"Recogito 2 is an open source annotation tool currently under development by Pelagios, an international initiative aimed at facilitating better linkages between online resources documenting the past. With Recogito 2, we aim to provide an environment for efficient semantic annotation—i.e., the task of enriching content with references to controlled vocabularies—in order to facilitate links between online data. At the same time, we address a perceived gap in the performance of existing tools, by emphasizing the development of mechanisms for manual intervention and editorial control that support the curation of quality data. While Recogito 2 provides an online workspace for general-purpose document annotation, it is particularly well-suited for geo-annotation, in other words annotating documents with references to gazetteers, and supports the annotation of both texts and images (i.e., digitized maps). Already available for testing at http://recogito.pelagios.org, its formal release to the public occurred in December 2016.","PeriodicalId":54009,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Map & Geography Libraries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15420353.2017.1307303","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41508768","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 Linked Data Model for Describing Cartographic Resources","authors":"M. McGee, K. Durante, Katherine H. Weimer","doi":"10.1080/15420353.2017.1308291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2017.1308291","url":null,"abstract":"This article highlights an ongoing investigation into Linked Open Data (LOD) description models for cartographic resources. The Linked Data for Production (LD4P) project is a multi-institutional effort that is exploring the use of the Library of Congress’ Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BIBFRAME) as a means to semantically annotate library metadata using LOD principles. The LD4P Cartographic Materials subproject is focusing both on evaluating the existing BIBFRAME ontology and extending it in order to enable the description of cartographic resources in LOD environments.","PeriodicalId":54009,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Map & Geography Libraries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15420353.2017.1308291","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42157778","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":"Semantic Historical Gazetteers and Related NLP and Corpus Linguistics Applications","authors":"Carmen Brando, Francesca Frontini","doi":"10.1080/15420353.2017.1307307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2017.1307307","url":null,"abstract":"This issue of the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries presents extended contributions from the workshop “A Place for Places: Current Trends and Challenges in the Development and Use of Geo-historical Gazetteers,” held on July 11, 2016 in Kraków, Poland in conjunction with the Digital Humanities conference (DH2016). The workshop—endorsed by the GeoHumanities Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations—was dedicated to an area of research that lies at the crossroads between geographic information science, corpus linguistics, natural language processing, and the semantic Web. It is undeniable that, in recent years many humanistic disciplines, such as History and Literary Studies, have undergone the effects of what has been termed a “digital turn,” and that this has led, among other things, to an increase in the application of quantitative approaches that strongly rely on natural language processing and corpus linguistics techniques for geographic information extraction and aggregation. Consequently, a plethora of projects has seen the light in recent years in which novel methods for analyzing and visualizing spatial-temporal phenomena described in documents from the past have been developed and put to use. Such methods depend heavily on algorithms for the automatic annotation of texts, such as Named Entity taggers and linkers, which have necessitated in turn the provision of reliable, domain-adapted sources of information. Understandably, then, a considerable amount of research has been devoted to the creation and use of semantic historical gazetteers, namely geographical data sets exposed as linked data describing places in their historical dimension. An exemplary project in this genre is the Pleiades gazetteer of the ancient world1 (Elliott and Gillies 2009). Built initially from cartographic resources describing the past, such as the Barrington Atlas, it has evolved into a digital semantic resource that is constantly being enlarged through the efforts of the community, and that has become in turn the basis of many other projects. Other noteworthy efforts include PastPlace2 (Southall, Mostern, and Berman 2011; Southall, von Luenen, and Aucott 2009) and the China Historical GIS.3","PeriodicalId":54009,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Map & Geography Libraries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15420353.2017.1307307","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41390430","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":"Towards the Spatial Analysis of Vague and Imaginary Place and Space: Evolving the Spatial Humanities through Medieval Romance","authors":"Patricia Murrieta-Flores, Naomi Howell","doi":"10.1080/15420353.2017.1307302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2017.1307302","url":null,"abstract":"The success so far of Spatial Humanities as a field can be summarized in the increasing amount of research and publications engaging with the exploration of geographies in literary and historical t...","PeriodicalId":54009,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Map & Geography Libraries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15420353.2017.1307302","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49085797","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}