| 7 | | The project ChinaGIS implements a prototype web-interface of a user-friendly Geo-Information-System. Its objectives are the intuitive handling, analysis and visualization of historical data with spatially related content. The developer-group supports the Open-Access policy of the Max-Planck-Society. The system enables the user to publish its data in interactive maps. Furthermore the system will be implemented on open-source software only. While the first version still relies on the GoogleMapsAPI as map renderer, the next version will implement a full open-source solution for rendering maps as well and thereby will become independent on future marketing decisions of Google. While the recent version provides access to the system only by a single frontend, the next version will furthermore implement a RESTful API. This API will allow the user to design its own user interface as a website, an applet or a application. Besides data supplied by the user and data already stored in the systems database, the system will also access various alternative geo-data-sources as well as context relevant data sources like digital libraries. The user will then be able to create links from an interactive map into a digital text document, but also the other way around. |
| | 7 | The project ChinaGIS implements a prototype web-interface of a user-friendly Geo-Information-System. Its objectives are the intuitive handling, analysis and visualization of historical data with spatially related content. The system enables the user to publish its data in interactive maps. While the first prototype still relies on the GoogleMapsAPI as map renderer, the next version will implement a full open-source solution for rendering maps as well and thereby will become independent on future marketing decisions of Google. While the prototype provides access to the system only by a single browser-based frontend, the next version will furthermore implement a RESTful API. This API will allow the user to design its own user interface as a website, an applet or an application. Thereby it will be easily to integrate within the Scholarly Workbench Project of the Max-Planck-Society. Besides data supplied by the user and data already stored in the systems database, the system will also access various alternative geo-data-sources as well as context relevant data sources like digital libraries. The user will then be able to create links from an interactive map into a digital text document, but also find and locate place names within digitized texts. We will present the workflow to produce an interactive map from a digitized version of the "Tien-Kung Kai-Wu" by Song Yingxing with an overlay of Song's journeys in China. |
