Monday 9.12.2024

At the 18th ICA Conference Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage, the Director of the Library the Geographical Sciences and Map Collection, PhDr. et Mgr. Eva Novotná, Ph.D.

The survey focused on a comparison of seven digital globe collections:

  1. Virtual Globes Museum, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
  2. Globe Collection, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
  3. Globe Museum, Austrian National Library, Vienna
  4. Globe Collection , French National Library, Paris
  5. Det Kgl. Bibliotek Søren, København
  6. Virtual Map Collection, Geodetic Research Institute, Zdiby
  7. Digital globescollection, Map collection, Charles University, Prague

Globes and their research are becoming increasingly important, so it is important that users have access to good quality 2D or 3D models, metadata and facts on which to base their research. Therefore, PhDr. et Mgr. Eva Novotná, Ph.D. compared selected digital collections, what data they present and how they are processed.

Source: ICA Heritage

NOVOTNÁ, Eva. Digitized globes for users: metadata, images and facts. In TSORLINI, Angeliki - BOUTOURA, Chrysoula. 18th ICA Conference Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage: The Conference Proceedings. 1. Thessaloniki: AUTH CartoGeoLab, 2024, s. 170-182. ISSN 2459-3893.