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The 25th International Cartographic Conference (ICC2011) of the International
Cartographic Association (ICA) will take place in Paris, France, from 3 to 8
July 2011. Apart from participating in the main conference, the ICA Commission
on the History of Cartography also plans a one-day Workshop at the
Bibliothèque Nationale de France (58 Rue de Richelieu) on Saturday 2 July 2011.
The Programme is as follows:
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 Kartographische 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 map
collection of the Afriterra Foundation in Boston (Massuchusetts), US. The
speaker is Director of the Afriterra Foundation which is a non-profit
cartographic library and archive assembling and preserving the original rare
maps of Africa in a definitive place for education and interpretation.
4. A presentation by the Département des Cartes et Plans of
the BnF on "Exceptional Maps of Africa".
5. A guided tour to the exhibition of Maps of Africa at the
Francois Mitterrand-site of the BnF.
Attendance of the Workshop will be free for people who are also registered for
the main Conference. People who will attend the Workshop only will be asked to
pay a nominal fee of Euro 10 which will be donated to the BnF for services
rendered. Those who would like to attend should contact the Chair of the ICA
Commission on the History of Cartography, Elri Liebenberg, at
[email protected].
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