A History of Distributed Mapping

2000 ◽  
pp. 48-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy W. Crampton
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Support Service ◽  
Web Gis ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Multiple Origins ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S

My intent in this paper is to answer two questions: what were the principal events in the development of distributed mapping, and how should a narrative of its development be written? Distributed mapping is a mode of cartography arising from the convergence of the World Wide Web, GIS, and digital cartography. It marks a significant break with traditional cartography because (1) the set of rules that shape the map archive are being fundamentally altered; (2) the distributivity of spatial data, their analysis and visualization are at unprecedented levels; and (3) new forms of interactivity are emerging. After discussing some theoretical issues in the history of cartography, I locate the multiple origins of distributed mapping in the work on animated mapping during the quantitative revolution in geography and the availability of computing power from the 1960s through the 1980s. The technology is a series of non-deterministic negotiations with resistance leading to delays in implementation, back-tracking, and multiple avenues of exploration. The popularization of the World Wide Web during the latter part of the 1990s brought commercial attention to distributed mapping, not as cartography, but as support service for travel sales channels. Commercialization will detach distributed mapping from academic geography as it did with GIS before it. In conclusion, I outline the forseeable research issues for distributed mapping.

Marketing in Hypermedia Computer-Mediated Environments: Conceptual Foundations

1996 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 50-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna L. Hoffman ◽  
Thomas P. Novak
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The World ◽  
Conceptual Foundations

The authors address the role of marketing in hypermedia computer-mediated environments (CMEs). Their approach considers hypermedia CMEs to be large-scale (i.e., national or global) networked environments, of which the World Wide Web on the Internet is the first and current global implementation. They introduce marketers to this revolutionary new medium, propose a structural model of consumer navigation behavior in a CME that incorporates the notion of flow, and examine a series of research issues and marketing implications that follow from the model.

Disability and mobile Internet

First Monday ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard Goggin
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Web Accessibility ◽  
Mobile Internet ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Mobile Web ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Expanded Concept

As the World Wide Web turns 25, it is an appropriate time to ask: where are we are now with disability and the Internet? A good place to look is in the burgeoning area of Internet and mobile technology. Accordingly, this paper explores the issues and prospect for disability and mobile Internet. It provides a brief history of the entwined nature of the rise of disability and the Internet, discusses the emergence of mobile Internets, and then turns to a discussion of mobile Web accessibility. It concludes by noting the limits of mobile Web accessibility, for its struggle to adopt an expanded concept of disability — but also because of growing complexity of mobile Internets.

scholarly journals JLAPACK – Compiling LAPACK FORTRAN to Java

1999 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Doolin ◽  
Jack Dongarra ◽  
Keith Seymour
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Virtual Machine ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Java Virtual Machine ◽  
Numerical Code ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Object Oriented Design ◽  
Current Implementation ◽  
The World

The JLAPACK project provides the LAPACK numerical subroutines translated from their subset Fortran 77 source into class files, executable by the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and suitable for use by Java programmers. This makes it possible for Java applications or applets, distributed on the World Wide Web (WWW) to use established legacy numerical code that was originally written in Fortran. The translation is accomplished using a special purpose Fortran‐to‐Java (source‐to‐source) compiler. The LAPACK API will be considerably simplified to take advantage of Java’s object‐oriented design. This report describes the research issues involved in the JLAPACK project, and its current implementation and status.

scholarly journals Indigenous and Transnational Values in Oceania: Heritage Reappropriation, From Museums to the World Wide Web

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica De Largy Healy ◽  
Barbara Glowczewski
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Singular Values ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
The People ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

What is the value of heritage? A source of explosive emotions which oppose the “value” of so-called Western expertise – history of social and human sciences and constant reevaluation of the heritage market – versus the values in “becoming” of the people who recognise themselves in this heritage and who claim it as a foundation for an alternative and better life? In this paper, we examine some of the ways in which different groups in the Pacific reinterpret their heritage in order to redefine their singular values as cultural subjectivities: individual, collective and national, diasporic or transnational in the case of some Indigenous networks (Festival of the Pacific Arts, Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, etc).

A spatial data retrieval and image processing expert system for the world wide web

1997 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 433-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendolin Bosques ◽  
Ricardo Rodríguez ◽  
Angélica Rondón ◽  
Ramón Vásquez
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Expert System ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Data Retrieval ◽  
The World

scholarly journals Psychiatry and the WWW: some implications

1997 ◽  
Vol 21 (12) ◽  
pp. 775-778 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Senior ◽  
M. L. Phillips ◽  
A. S. David
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Computer Search ◽  
Search Techniques ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

This paper highlights the role that the World Wide Web (WWW) has to play as an aid to psychiatry. A basic history of the WWW is provided as is an introduction to some search techniques involved with the WWW. The literature on applications potentially relevant to psychiatry is reviewed using computer search facilities (BIDS, PsychLit and Medline). The WWW is one of the aspects of the Internet that possesses a huge potential for exploitation, both the clinical and research psychiatrist are able to benefit from its use.

scholarly journals WEB ARCHIVES IN RECONSTRUCTING HISTORY OF VIRTUAL MUSEUMS: POTENTIAL AND LIMITATIONS

2020 ◽  
pp. 95-105
Author(s):  
N. G. Povroznik ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Internet Archive ◽  
Virtual Museums ◽  
Web Archives ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Web History ◽  
The Web

Web archives are repositories of unique sources on the history of the information society, including the cultural segment of the World Wide Web. The relevance of studying the web history of museum information resources refers to the need to understand the past and contemporary processes of the development of the museum's digital environment in order to more effectively build strategies for future advancement with a valuable impact on society. The article, for the first time, attempts to assess the information potential of web archives for studying the web history of virtual museums and discusses the limitations that prevent the reconstruction of their web history. Web archives are designed to observe web pages and web sites saved at a certain point in time; they analyze the structure and content of the museum web, interpret the visual aids and sections' titles, and track statistics of publication activity. Tracing changes in the role and significance of the digital environment in museum activities, as well as trends in the development of museums, and predicting future trajectories are possible based on the analysis of the dynamics of museums' web content. At the same time, the peculiarities of search engines in web archives, technical restrictions, incompatibility of modern software with earlier formats, limits on scanning information on the World Wide Web to save it, uneven preservation by domain zones in the Internet Archive, and the lack of specialized web preservation programs at national and regional levels restraint the possibility of a comprehensive study of the history of virtual museums. The author concludes that it is necessary to expand national web archiving programs in favour of a more detailed preservation of the cultural segment of the web as a digital cultural heritage, as well as the content of social networks and mobile applications, for future use by researchers.

scholarly journals László Gozmány’s annotated essay on the history of Hungarian lepidopterology published in 1949

2021 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 161-169
Author(s):  
Zsolt Bálint
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Original Essay ◽  
Principal Author

In 1949, the American Lepidopterists’ Society published an essay of nine entries on the history of Hungarian lepidopterology. The principal author of the short paper was the young, 28 years old Dr. László Gozmány. Access of the essay is difficult as early volumes of the News of the Lepidopterists’ Society are rare in libraries and not available on the world-wide-web. The original essay is reproduced here with 38 supplementary annotations giving more historical clarity. The article is a tribute to Dr. László Gozmány on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth. With one figure.

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