Maps as Knowledge Aggregators: from Renaissance Italy Fra Mauro to Web Search Engines |
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| Authors: | Andrea Nanetti Angelo Cattaneo Siew Ann Cheong Chin-Yew Lin |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, 81 Nanynag Drive, Singapore 637458andrea.nanetti@ntu.edu.sg;3. The Portuguese Centre for Global History - Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, New University of Lisbon, Av. de Berna, 26 C, 1069-061 Lisbon, Portugal;4. Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, Singapore 637371;5. Knowledge Mining Group, Microsoft Research, Building 2, No. 5 Dan Ling Street, Haidian District, 100080 Beijing, China |
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| Abstract: | AbstractFor many years geological students have been graduating from universities with little knowledge of how to use the cartographic language of line, letter, symbol and tone by which the distribution and spatial arrangement of earth science data can be best expressed. The author discusses the development of the teaching of geological cartography in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Leeds. Details of this innovation are set against the background of data obtained from a recent questionnaire on the practice of cartography as a discipline in departments of geology in British universities. |
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| Keywords: | world maps knowledge aggregators web search engines |
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