DIGITAL APPROACHES IN CARTOGRAPHIC HERITAGE:
DIGITIZING, GEOREFERENCING AND PUBLISHING ON WEB OF THE
„CHARTA ROMÂNIEI MERIDIONALE”
1. Project data:
Contracting parties: UEFISCDI and Babeş–Bolyai University
Project number: PN-II-RU-TE-2011-3-0125
Contract number: 60/5th of October 2011
Period: 5th of October, 2011 – 4th of October, 2014
Sum: 628,800 RON
2. Members:
Project leader:
BARTOS-ELEKES Zsombor PhD, cartographer and map historian, associate professor, Department of Geography in Hungarian, Babeş–Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Other members:
IMECS Zoltán PhD, geographer and expert in geoinformatics, assistant professor, Department of Geography in Hungarian, Babeş–Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
MAGYARI-SÁSKA Zsolt PhD, expert in computer sciences, assistant professor, Department of Geography for extensions (Gheorgheni), Babeş–Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Dr. habil. TIMÁR Gábor PhD, geophysicist and geodesist, associate professor and head of department, Department of Geophysics and Space Science, Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary)
3. Results
a. Project description (scientific context, motivation, objectives): PDF
b. Map of Southern Romania (historical background, geodesy, survey, projection, map, digitizing and georeferencing): PPS
c. Final scientific report 2011–2014 (in English, in Romanian), earlier reports in Romanian: 2011 (PDF), 2012 (PDF), 2013 (PDF).
d. THE MAIN RESULTS: detailed essay, online map and google-layer on www.charta1864.ro
4. Publications, conferences
a. Historical Maps in Environmental Geosciences (Cluj, 21-23 June 2012): 2 presentations in program
b. 8th ICA International Workshop on Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage (Rome, 19-20 September 2013): 2 presentations in program
c. Charta României Meridionale (in Romanian) on geo-spatial.org (11 February 2014)
d. European Geosciences Union General Assembly (Vienna, 27 April – 02 May 2014): Faces of the Earth (abstract), Forest-cover changes (abstract), Danube flood (abstract)
e. 9th ICA International Workshop on Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage (Budapest, 4-5 September 2014): 1 presentation in program
f. Article published in e-Perimetron – peer-reviewed international web journal on sciences and technologies affined to history of cartography and maps
(c) Bartos-Elekes Zs., Imecs Z., Magyari-Sáska Zs., Timár G., 2011–2014.
This work was supported by a grant of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research, CNCS – UEFISCDI, project number PN-II-RU-TE-2011-3-0125