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This is a further reminder of the Workshop of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography which will be presented at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) in Paris (Richelieu-site) on Saturday, 2 July 2011. Programme: 09:00 - 09:30: Arrival of participants (please note that the entrance to the Richelieu Building of the BNF is at n° 5, Rue Vivienne). 09:00 - 09:30: (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 paper 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 paper 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 of the BNF where a selection of particular maps of Africa relating to the colonial period will be presented and commented on. Attendance of the Workshop will be FREE and open to everybody, including persons who have not registered for the main ICA Conference. Prospective attendees should please contact me at [email protected] To coincide with the ICA Conference, the BNF will be presenting an Exhibition from 21 June until 21 August 2011 on "Carnets de Route des Explorateurs d'Afrique" (African Explorers' itineraries) at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, François Mitterand site, Quai François-Mauriac, Paris 13e. Everyday from 09:00 to 20:00, admission free. Métro Line 6 (Quai de la Gare), Métro Line 14 and RER (Bibliothèque François Mitterand). www.bnf.fr, Tel +(01) 53.79.59.59 Elri Liebenberg
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