Austria - 5th Intl Conf on Digital Approaches in Cartographic Heritage

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Austria - 5th Intl Conf on Digital Approaches in Cartographic Heritage

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This Workshop is addressed to scholars, researchers, map curators, map collectors, administrators, digital industry / market operators, and students coming from different cultural and educational backgrounds (humanistic, scientific and engineering) whose work is either focused on or affined to cartographic heritage. The Workshop will offer a common ground to colleagues from various disciplines and practice where they can meet, interact and exchange knowledge, experience, plans and ideas on how the digital revolution, modern information and communication technologies in general can or could be used to contribute to cartographic heritage in terms of acquisition, processing visualization and communication of relevant digital data.

Sessions. The following topics will be adressed:

multidisciplinary dimension of cartographic heritage
transformation of old maps, globes and cartographic documents in digital form
comparison of digital methods
standardisation
applying digital techniques for analysis and interpretation of cartographic heritage
map libraries and digital assistent tools for curators and virtual access for costumers
digital support for the preservation and restatoration of cartographic heritage
use of ICT for dissementation and education of cartographic heritage
digital improvements of map collections

Location : Vienna, Austria
Contact : http://cartography.tuwien.ac.at/cartoheritage/cfp

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