3^rd ICA COMMISSION ON THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY

Apart from participating in the Technical Sessions of the ICC2011 and having a Business Meeting during the week of 3-8 July, the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography held a one-day Workshop at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris (Richelieu site) on Saturday 2 July 2011.

The Programme was as follows:

09:00 – 09:30: Arrival of participants (the entrance to the Richelieu Building of the BnF is at n° 5, Rue Vivienne).

09:30 – 13:00:

1. A demonstration of the capability and potential of the software package "MapAnalyst" by Dr.Alastair Pearson of  Portsmouth University, UK. This computer programme was developed by Dr Bernhard Jenny of the Kartographisches Institut in Zürich and is known as “The Map Historian’s Tool for the Analysis of Old Maps”.

2. A PowerPoint presentation by Dr Paul van den Brink of the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, on "The Internet as a resource for carto-bibliographic research".

3. A PowerPoint presentation by Lucia Lovison-Golob on the “The Exploration of African Cartography at the Afriterra Foundation”. The speaker is Project Director of the Afriterra Foundation, a non-profit cartographic library and archive in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and Chairperson of the ICA Working group on Open Access Data and Intellectual Property Rights.

13.00 – 14.30: Lunch

14.30 – 16.00: Visit to the Map Department where a selection of particular maps of Africa from the colonial period were presented and commented on.

  

                                     Olivier Loiseaux of the BnF shows some 18^th and 19^th century atlases of Africa to Workshop attendees.

 

Attendance of the Workshop was be open to everybody, including people who had not registered for the main  Conference, and attendance was FREE.