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Maps and GIS Matter to Libraries & Museums
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来源：文摘 作者：国学 发布时间：2007-03-05
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Maps and GIS Matter to Libraries & Museums
Libraries and museums are centers of knowledge and learning. Librarians and curators collect and organize information about our world so that it can be made available to everyone. Maps in print and digital form are an important part of any collection.
The Library of Congress has been archiving maps and atlases since its beginning in 1800. Since then, the collection has grown from three maps and an atlas to cartographic holdings that include more than 4,250,000 map sheets, 53,000 atlases, 700,000 microfilm images, 300 globes, 2,000 terrain models, 1,600,000 aerial photographs and remote sensing images, and 1,820 computer files.
The Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress provides cartographic and geographic information for all parts of the world to governments, the scholarly community, and to the general public. Housed within this division, the Congressional Cartographic Program (CCP) is a one-stop GIS shop that provides GIS data and services to congressional personnel to assist in making better-informed public policy decisions. 字串3
Maps in Our Lives is an exhibit that celebrates a thirty-year partnership between the Library of Congress and the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM). Although the physical exhibit is no longer on display, you can still experience the online exhibit that explores four constituent professions represented by the ACSM: surveying, cartography, geodesy, and GIS. Maps include those from the Library’s historic map collections and the ACSM collection in the Library of Congress.
While not all institutions manage holdings of this size, libraries and museums are realizing that a GIS can not only help organize their growing collections, but can help make the information more easily available to their communities.
Here are just a few examples.
Read Prototype Geographic Search and Query Tools for a Library Digital Archive to see how the University of Southern California GIS Research Laboratory for the USC Collection Information Systems Digital Information Management team built an ArcIMS-based application that provides the existing archive Web site with advanced spatial search. Users can easily define a geographic area of interest using interactive map, view available holdings within the selected area, and search the Digital Archive for information on those holdings. 字串4
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis has an online exhibit called Maps: Tools for Adventure, presented in partnership with National Geographic Maps. You can pick an explorer and then follow the links for activities at home, in the classroom, or at the museum to build your mapping skills and learn more about where you live.
The library at the University of Arizona has an online map gallery where you can find a large collection of maps about Arizona on topics such as business and economics, and people and society. They also provide a GIS-based online mapping application so you can create your own map.
The David Rumsey Map Collection combines historic maps with present day satellite imagery, political boundaries, and street maps, so you can follow the development of cities such as Boston, San Francisco, and Tokyo through time. More maps from the David Rumsey collection are available in the book Cartographica Extraordinaire from ESRI Press, which traces advances in the art and science of mapmaking from the 1700's to the present. 字串6
Plan a visit to your local library, and instead of just looking for a good book, look for a good map.
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