CartoMundi is an international online system dedicated to the promotion of the cartographic heritage. Every institution holding, producing or selling cartographic documents can use CartoMundi. Its main tool is a collaborative trilingual website in English, French and Spanish. It combines georeferenced database with a graphic interface based on an interactive planisphere. Firstly devised to meet libraries, researchers and students needs, CartoMundi can also be of interest for other fields like edition, exploitation of natural resources and tourism. An International Collective Catalogue While most books can be found through computerised catalogues, cartographic documentation is scarcely referenced on the Internet. Despite the development of digitalisation, the absence of a specific tool for dealing with this heritage is becoming problematic. The scheme CartoMundi intends to fill in this void through a new device: a website with an international collective catalogue. The combination of map curators and geomaticians knowhow, offers satisfactions to the librarians and to the readers who are researching for maps by their location. Sharing and Mutualising knowledge CartoMundi is based on mutualising data and howknow. Through a state of the production, description of each document is made available to partners who register their state of collection in the collective catalog. This organization gives way to important cost-cuts for all the partners. It also offers increased visibility of their collection through an international website. Promoting the use of Cartography This system will not replace existing catalogues. It supplements them.Through encouraging the exchange and gathering of cartographic knowledge on an international scale, CartoMundi facilitates smoother relations between map users and institutions who hold them. The possibility of visualising the perimeter of each map will contribute to renew their use and to develop new questions in a variety of fields such as geology, archaeology, geography, economics and history of social sciences, etc.

1. Online promotion
of Cartographic
Heritage
Jean-Luc ARNAUD
Senior Researcher at CNRS
22-10-2012

2. Supported by Aix-Marseille University,
and the National Centre for Scientific
research (CNRS)
Developped by The Mediterranean
House for Social Sciences (MMSH) –
MMSH
Aix-en-Provence
With the support of the French National
Library and the National Geographic
Intitute (IGN)

3. Three Chapters
1. Observation
2. Principles
3. Website

4. 1
1. Observation
2. Principles
3. Website

5. CartoMundi results of a question
Numerical
Catalogues
Maps : 15 % Books : 90 %
Why this différence ?

6. Uncomplete and non useful metadata
A same system
of cataloguing
Created for
books
Adapted for
maps

7. Because, looking for a map is, first, searching a place
Rejected by the
map librarians
They prefer
Traditional
tools

8. Results :
When we start in mass digitization
There is not numerical catalogues
Emergency for cartographic
series

9. 2.1
1. Observation
2. Principles
2.1. Geographical Location

10. CartoMundi a tool for researches
by geographical location

11. The geographic field
Geographic Field
To each card we add T
the description of the
perimeter represented
by the correspondent
document
Main principles

12. The geographic field
Geographic Field
List of maps wich
represent the
selected place
This field can be requested by
geographical question and return
a list of maps
Main principles

13. The geographic field
Geographic Field
List of maps wich
represent the
selected place
It can be displayed on a
planisphere
Main principles

14. Digitized sheet indexes
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Main principles

15. Digitized sheet indexes
Showing a state of collection
Main principles

16. Digitized sheet indexes
Showing a state of collection
Finding the call number of a sheet
Principes généraux

17. Digitized sheet indexes
Showing a state of collection
Finding the call number of a sheet
Selecting a reproduction
Main principles

18. 2.2
1. Observation
2. Principles
2.1. Geographical location
2.2 A structure for a collective
catalogue

19. Le catalogue is organized from
three main databases

20. Three databases
Description of the establishements
Directory
Open to the map libraries, the
Producer and the reselers.
Succeed to the IFLA directory
(Loiseaux 2000), obsolete

21. Three databases
Directory
Descriptions of the series
State of the production
Gathers the generic descriptions of
the series. For each referenced
series , it provides a description of all
of its published sheets

22. Three databases
Directory The collective
catalogue is at the
crossroad between
the State of the
Collective catalogue production and the
Directory
Each record of the collective
State of the production catalogue is, at first, a link
between the State of the
production and the Directory

23. 2.3
1. Observation
2. Principles
2.1. Geographical Localion
2.2 A structure for a collective catalogue
2.3. A tool to share information

24. CartoMundi is not only a collective
catalogue. It is also a tool to share
Information.
1. Serving partners, to fill the local
catalogues.
Each recording takes place in three
stages.

25. A process in three stages
Direct recording
Tools to import
Partner 1. Recording a CartoMundi
state of
Local
catalogue
collection

26. A process in three stages
Direct recording
Tools to import
Partner 2. Exporting an CartoMundi
TXT file
Catalogue
local
TXT
file

27. A process in three stages
Direct recording
Tools to import
Partner 3. Importing the CartoMundi
TXT file in the
Local
local catalogue
catalogue
TXT
Conversion
file

28. CartoMundi is not only a collective
catalogue. It is also a tool to share
Information.
1. Serving partners, to fill the local
catalogues.
2. For other establishments,
through a OAI-PMH repository.

29. Copyrights
The recording of an information by a
partner alows CartoMundi to :
1. Publish this information
2. Export this information for another
partner
3. Keep these rights after the end of the
contract

30. 2.4
1. Observation
2. Principles
2.1. Geographical Location
2.2 A structure for a collective catalogue
2.3. A tool to share information
2.4. Charged services

31. Distribution of the costs
CartoMundi is not trying to generate
benefits. The fees cover the cost of
user support and system maintenance.
CartoMundi is free of charge for the
surfers.
The costs are distributed according to
each participation.

32. Distribution of the costs
Directory Free of charge
Collective catalogue Charged annually
State of the production Price cut

33. 3
1. Observation
2. Principles
3. Website

36. www.cartomundi.eu
Jean-Luc ARNAUD
jlarnaud@mmsh.univ-aix.fr