Building a Globally Distributed Historical Sheet Map Set: Austro-Hungarian Maps

NYPL, along with the American Geographical Society Library, is serving as a partner on an IMLS National Leadership Grant based at the University of Connecticut's Homer Babbidge Library, Map and Geographic Information Center.

The project addresses the needs of non-specialists using map and geographic data by designing an international, metadata-driven, dynamic tool that will enable users to access and view scanned and geo-referenced maps by searching a digital gazetteer. NYPL is participating in the project by providing digital captures with brief metadata of its holdings, more than 700 items, of a multi-sheet set of historical topographic maps of the Austro-Hungarian Empire covering the period 1877-1914. The result will be a seamless map drawn from several participating repositories.

Outcomes of this project should include new models for approaching image data compression, geo-referencing, merging metadata digital gazetteers, and new Geographic Information Systems. The project began in December of 2004.

Building a Globally Distributed Historical Sheet Map Set: Austro-Hungarian Maps

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