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Landmark 1979 California Water Atlas Debuts OnlineOriginally published in 1979, The California Water Atlas, a monument of 20th century cartographic publishing, has been scanned and put online for free public access by the David Rumsey Map Collection. Linda Vida, Director of The Water Resources Center Archives of the University of California asked David Rumsey and Cartography Associates to scan and make available to the public this extraordinary book. The copyright holder, the California Governor's Office of Planning and Research, agreed to a... Read full article |
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New davidrumsey.com Website RedesignFor the first time since its launch in 1999, the www.davidrumsey.com website has been completely redesigned and updated. With better navigation and structure, users will find it easier to explore the site's many viewers and collection database with over 21,000 maps online. A new Blog has been added to the site, and includes entries for Recent Additions, News, Featured Maps, Related Sites, and Videos. Over 200 historic maps from the collection can be viewed in a new browser-based version of... Read full article |
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David Rumsey Donates 150,000 Maps to Stanford UniversityDavid Rumsey will give his map collection and digital library to Stanford University over the next five to ten years. Rumsey will continue to host and build the online map library at www.davidrumsey.com for years to come. Librarian Julie Sweetking-Singer unfolds John Melish's 1823 Map of the United States. Read Stanford Article Read David Rumsey's talk at the Stanford Donor Event, April 14, 2009 Read full article |
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Rumsey Map Islands Open in Second LifeRumsey Map Islands open in the virtual world of Second Life. Maps from the collection are rendered in huge scale in this 3D environment. See the Video of the Opening Talks. Rumsey Maps in Second Life Read MIT's Technology Review Article Read Second Life Blog by Bettina Tizzy Visit Rumsey Map Islands in Second Life Read full article |
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Google Sky Adds Rumsey Celestial GlobeGoogle Sky (part of Google Earth) adds a new layer for the 1792 Celestial Globe by Giovanni Cassini, from the David Rumsey Map Collection. Read the Astronomy Magazine Blog about the new feature. The Cassini Celestial Globe in Google Sky View the Celestial Globe in Google Earth Read full article |
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Google Earth Adds Rumsey Historical Maps LayerGoogle Earth launches a group of maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection in their 3D Globe. Read an article in PC Magazine, read the Google Earth Press Release, or read David Rumsey's entry in the Google Blog. Giovanni Cassini's 1790 Terrestrial Globe in Google Earth View Collection in Google Earth Read full article |
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MIT Technology Review on David Rumsey's workMIT’s Technology Review discusses David Rumsey’s historical map collection and highlights his work on remixing Lewis and Clark's published map of their journey. View the georeferenced (GIS) Lewis and Clark map in 2D GIS and 3D GIS. Click on the image below to view in the LUNA Browser. Lewis and Clark Expedition 200th Anniversary Remixed Mosaic by David Rumsey and Telemorphic Read full article |
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San Francisco Chronicle Interviews David RumseyRead the article that appeared on September 27, 2004 in the San Francisco Chronicle, about Rumsey's work and his book with Edith Punt, Cartographica Extraordinaire. Read full article |
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O'Reilly 2004 Oscon Conference features Rumsey talk on "Open Content: How Online Digital Libraries will Provide Access to Cultural Information in the 21st Century."David Rumsey gave a Keynote Address to the July 26-30, 2004 O'Reilly Open Source Conference in Portland, Oregon. Read reviews on ZDNet, O'Reilly, Jon Udell, and Jason Gilmore. Read full article |
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MAPPING AMERICA - Treasures from David Rumsey Historical Map Collection on Display at the San Francisco International Airport June 2003 - January 2004A selection of over one hundred rare and unique maps from the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection are on display through January 2004 at the San Francisco International Airport. The exhibit explores themes of mapping exploration, settlement, travel, geology, navigation, military campaigns, railroads, and cities. Read an article about the exhibit. A view of part of the exhibit installation along the corridor between Terminals 1 and 2 at the San Francisco Airport. Pictured above is a firs... Read full article |
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UC Berkeley East Asian Library and David Rumsey Collaborate to Launch Japanese Historic Maps Online LibraryThe new website, Japanese Historical Maps from the collections of the East Asian Library at UC Berkeley has opened in February of 2003. The Japanese Historical Map Collection contains about 2,300 early maps of Japan and the World. The collection was acquired by the University of California from the Mitsui family in 1949, and is housed on the Berkeley campus in the East Asian Library. Represented in this online collection are over 1,100 images of maps and books from this Collection. The map... Read full article |
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David Rumsey Map Collection Wins Webby Award in Technical AchievementThe International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences selected The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection as the winner for Outstanding Technical Achievement at The 6th Annual Webby Awards. Hailed as "the only awards for Internet sites that matter" by the Los Angeles Times, winners of the 6th Annual Webby Awards were announced at a special ceremony Tuesday evening in San Francisco. In addition to Rumsey's site, winners ranged from global giants like the BBC, which was honored in two categories... Read full article |
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David Rumsey to Distribute The AMICO Library for Higher Education and Scholarly UseThe Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) and Cartography Associates, owned by map collector David Rumsey, signed a distribution agreement that provides online access to The AMICO Library™ for the Fall 2002 school year using Luna Imaging's Insight® software. The distribution agreement advances the mutual goal of AMICO and David Rumsey to provide a broader range of educational and scholarly users with access to this important collection of artwork that covers all periods of art and contains div... Read full article |
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From Parchment to Ether: Fusing Historical Maps with Web GISThis article by David Rumsey and Dana Wormer appeared in the former Geospatial Solutions Magazine in the April 1, 2002 issue. It relates the evolution of the Rumsey online map library into solutions that utilize early forms of Web GIS. Read full article |
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This Is a Real Quest for MapsThe article, This is a Real Quest for Maps, appeared in Wired News on March 7, 2002. It detailed the early evolution of the map collection and how it became an online Web library. Read full article |
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Museums and the Web 2001 - Paper Presented by David Rumsey, "Historical Map Collection Web Site."The search, browse, and data window of the online map collection at the end of the first year of operation After the first year of operation of the online map library, the paper presents issues surrounding the site's purpose, design, and operation, including meta-data management, digital image creation and preservation, site usage and economics, sharing web based archives, and future directions for online collections. Read full article |
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Mercator's World Magazine Publishes "State of the Art" by Julie Sweetkind-SingerThe Image Workspace of the online David Rumsey Collection Julie Sweetking-Singer, former Map Librarian of the Rumsey Collection, published an article about the collection in Mercator's World Magazine. From the article: "Rumsey is encouraged about the future of historic maps. The very existence of high-resolution copies of maps on the Web will bring these beautiful and important materials to the attention of the general public in ways that have not been possible before. To that prospect, Rums... Read full article |
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Rumsey Map Collection Opens Online Map LibraryThe first home page of the David Rumsey Map Collection as it appeared on March 15, 2000 On March 15, 2000, the David Rumsey Map Collection opened its online library website for the first time. With just over 2,000 images, the online collection represented a cross section of the larger physical map collection and included charts, globes, atlases, pocket maps, exploration books, wall maps, and geographies. It had two viewers, the Insight Java Client - a downloaded desktop application - and t... Read full article |
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