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Subject: Digital Atlas of Indonesian History
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:54:18 +1100
From: Robert Cribb <[log in to unmask]>
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It gives me great pleasure to announce the publication of the _Digital
Atlas of Indonesian History_, a digital reinvention of my _Historical
Atlas of Indonesia_, one including about 150 new maps and designed for
use in classroom teaching as well as for royalty-free reproduction by
scholars in their own publications. Some of you will know the atlas has
been available in Australia for a short while but now copies have been
released in Europe, the Americas and Asia as well.
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_Digital Atlas of Indonesian History_
By Robert Cribb
Copenhagen: NIAS Press, October 2010
user guide (80 pp.) + DVD (487 maps)
ISBN: 978-87-91114-66-3
CONTENTS
The Digital Atlas has two (or three) components:
1) A printed user guide.
2) A DVD, on which is the actual atlas with all of its thousands of files.
3) A companion website (http://www.indonesianhistory.info), which
closely resembles the contents of the DVD but with corrections, updates
and other new material. The maps displayed on its public pages are
watermarked samples only but registered owners of copies of the Digital
Atlas can login and access an up-to-date and fully featured online
edition of the atlas without needing to use the atlas DVD.
Both the DVD and online editions of the atlas work using a normal web
browser. Each contains the following items:
• An introduction and six chapters covering the history of Indonesia.
The text is searchable, and is illustrated by different maps at relevant
points in the text.
• 487 (or more) maps that can be viewed in four different sizes
(including thumbnails) and are downloadable in two formats (PDF and
JPEG). Each map has the following additional data:
o File name
o Map number in Historical Atlas (if applicable)
o Caption
o Years covered (if applicable)
o Additional information
o Further reading
• Clickable indexes to the maps organized by chapter, place name, topic,
date/time period and map title.
• Printable base maps of Indonesia and Southeast Asia that users may
freely adapt for their own use.
• Scanned images from the 10th edition of W. van Gelder’s _Schoolatlas
van Nederlandsch Oost-Indië_ (published 1909).
• A directory of Internet links to a selection of historical maps of the
Indonesian archipelago available online.
• A guide to using the atlas (the online version of the printed user guide).
In addition, the online edition includes:
• An updates section, logging any changes made to the online version of
the atlas since publication.
• New material not found on the DVD (e.g. nine new maps just received
from the author).
• A feature allowing Google searches of the website (not just of the
maps but the text as well).
FURTHER INFORMATION
http://www.niaspress.dk/books/digital-atlas-indonesian-history
(This also provides links to where the atlas can be ordered - basically
everywhere.)
Otherwise, you can simply ‘test drive’ the Digital Atlas at:
http://www.indonesianhistory.info
Robert Cribb, FAHA,
Professor of Asian Politics and History
School of Culture, History and Language
Research School of Asia and the Pacific
College of Asia and the Pacific
Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
Australia
tel. ++61 2 6125 4247, fax ++ 61 2 6125 5525,
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