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Reading Maps at a Distance: Texts on Maps as New Historical Data

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Maps have their own visual grammar that combines graphical and textual elements in a form of meaning-making that is multimodal and geospatial. Historians of cartography have in the past ignored its...

Source: Imago Mundi

DOI: 10.1080/03085694.2024.2453336

Authors: Katherine McDonough, Kaspar Beelen, Daniel C.S. Wilson, Rosie Wood

Institutions: Lancaster University, University of London, School of Advanced Study, The Alan Turing Institute

Language: English

Topic: Historical Geography and Cartography

Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: National Endowment for the Humanities, Alan Turing Institute, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Awards: G1633672591, Data/Culture. Building sustainable communities around Arts and Humanities datasets and software, Living with Machines, G3855435662, The Alan Turing Institute, Machines Reading Maps: Finding and Understanding Text on Maps, Machines Reading Maps: Finding and Understanding Text on Maps

OpenAlex ID: W4408967957

FWCI: 3.17

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Cited by: 4

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