Can a Map Be a Geographic Information Retrieval Tool?

Can a Map Be a Geographic Information Retrieval Tool?

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This paper is intended to open up discussion on potential co-operation, which would enable participants restricted by unequal resources and technologies to participate in a pan-European project. The idea has not yet been fully developed but the purpose of the project is to allow digital maps to func...

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Main Author: Jan Smits
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: openjournals.nl 2000-07-01
Series:Liber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries
Online Access:http://www.liberquarterly.eu/articles/10.18352/lq.7622/
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spelling doaj-f7d7ce20a17748769729c249e5d265c02021-10-02T17:27:48Zengopenjournals.nlLiber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries2213-056X2000-07-0110450451510.18352/lq.76227577Can a Map Be a Geographic Information Retrieval Tool?Jan Smits0N/aThis paper is intended to open up discussion on potential co-operation, which would enable participants restricted by unequal resources and technologies to participate in a pan-European project. The idea has not yet been fully developed but the purpose of the project is to allow digital maps to function not only as geographic resources and educational tools, but to act simultaneously as an interface to metadata-databases. These would contain de-scriptions of maps and spatial databases, as well as locational or geo-referenced resources in books, periodicals, and the Internet.http://www.liberquarterly.eu/articles/10.18352/lq.7622/
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Can a Map Be a Geographic Information Retrieval Tool?
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title Can a Map Be a Geographic Information Retrieval Tool?
title_short Can a Map Be a Geographic Information Retrieval Tool?
title_full Can a Map Be a Geographic Information Retrieval Tool?
title_fullStr Can a Map Be a Geographic Information Retrieval Tool?
title_full_unstemmed Can a Map Be a Geographic Information Retrieval Tool?
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publishDate 2000-07-01
description This paper is intended to open up discussion on potential co-operation, which would enable participants restricted by unequal resources and technologies to participate in a pan-European project. The idea has not yet been fully developed but the purpose of the project is to allow digital maps to function not only as geographic resources and educational tools, but to act simultaneously as an interface to metadata-databases. These would contain de-scriptions of maps and spatial databases, as well as locational or geo-referenced resources in books, periodicals, and the Internet.
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