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Advocating for a change of mentality in the development of metadata standards: historical celestial cartography as a specialization example

open access: yesJLIS.it, 2017
We live in a highly volatile technological environment, in which the generation of new data and information access tools has increased the level of specialization of the users’ information needs.
Elena Escolano Rodríguez   +3 more
doaj   +11 more sources

Star and Solar System Maps: A History of Celestial Cartography

open access: yesResearch Notes of the AAS, 2021
Abstract Since antiquity, people have observed the night sky. To establish order and predictability, people made maps of the heavens. Two kinds emerged. The first were star maps, organized into constellations but focused on stellar location in the sky.
Nick Kanas
exaly   +2 more sources

Context-flexible cartography with Siamese topological neural networks

open access: yesDiscover Artificial Intelligence
Cartography is a technique for creating maps, which are graphical representations of spatial information. Traditional cartography involves the creation of geographical data, such as locations of countries, geographical features of mountains, rivers, and ...
Pitoyo Hartono
exaly   +2 more sources

Illustrating the Phaenomena: Celestial Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

open access: yesAestimatio, 2015
Elly Dekker (book author)   +1 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Proliferation of Cartographic Education in the Age of Big Data [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Geodesy and Geoinformation Science, 2022
Maps have long been a part of everyday life for the general public, and even more so in today’s knowledge society. No doubt, cartography as a profession of map design is assuming a more important role in the formation of intellectual skills in terms of ...
Liqiu MENG
doaj   +1 more source

Geodesy from Mesopotamie to Global Geodetic Observing System [PDF]

open access: yesGeodetski Glasnik, 2015
During the six millennia of the existence of the civilization on the Earth, surveying techniques have been experienced difficult foreseeable changes. The definition and role of geodesy have been changing accordingly. Geodesy has evolved from its original
Medžida Mulić   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

ADAPTIVE CARTOGRAPHY FOR THE MODERN INFORMATION SOCIETY: FROM MULTI-PURPOSE MAP RESOURCE TO «SMART» MAP

open access: yesInterCarto. InterGIS, 2016
For centuries, the conceptual foundations of cartography was influenced by the needs of human activities and possibilities of technical realization of basic processes.
S. S. Dyshlyuk
doaj   +1 more source

Astronomy and Diplomacy at the Court of King João V of Portugal

open access: yesCahiers François Viète, 2017
During the reign of King João V of Portugal (r.1707-1750), astronomy took part in a movement of cultural renewal and gave impulse to notable international exchanges, which were promoted by the absolutist monarch himself.
Luís Tirapicos
doaj   +1 more source

Story2Board: A Training‐Free Approach for Expressive Visual Storytelling

open access: yesComputer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract We present Story2Board, a training‐free framework for expressive storyboard generation from natural language. Existing methods narrowly focus on subject identity, overlooking key aspects of visual storytelling such as spatial composition, background evolution, and narrative pacing.
D. Dinkevich   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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