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Jonathan Cherry with Dr Susan Hegarty (SPD)
Conference of Irish Geographers
Digitising the Irish Historic Towns Atlas: challenges and opportunites
2014
May
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UCD
Since its inception in 1981 as part of a wider European scheme of historic town atlases, the Irish Historic Towns Atlas (IHTA) has published 25 fascicles in hard copy. More recently in 2013, elements of the IHTA for Derry ~ Londonderry was put online through collaboration with Derry City Council and Queen’s University, Belfast. Following conversations with the IHTA team based at the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) regarding the possibility of digitising the atlases, the Carlingford atlas, published in 2011 and edited by Harold O’Sullivan and Raymond Gillespie, was chosen as an exemplar for digitisation, principally due to the scale of the town. This paper aims to illustrate the potential opportunities and challenges of creating a digital version of the IHTA to be used as a visualisation and research tool.
http://media.wix.com/ugd/c7bebb_54fcd89e11c849c3b48732d376ca0db9.pdf
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