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Subject:        Preserving Cartographical Production Process: KICK-OFF EuroSDR
Working Group
Date:   Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:48:20 +0000
From:   Da Cruz, Tinho <[log in to unmask]>
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Forwarded at the request of Rink Kruk:

Dear colleagues,

We are launching a working group on the *Preservation of the
Geographical Production Process*, an initiative supported by EuroSDR
(EuroSpatial DataResearch), EuroGeographics (the Association of European
National Mapping Agencies), the International Cartographic Association
(ICA)and the National Geographic InstituteBelgium. Our first meeting is
organizedby a consortium of Ghent University, Swisstopo and the National
Geographic Institute Belgium.

Our *aim of the meeting* is to create a European platform and to propose
a concrete plan to preserve and open-up the knowledge on the
geographical production process on a European scale from the last
century(ies). It is our aim to have realized such a European cooperation
by 2014 and present our first results in May 2014.

We arrange *a roundtable* for European NMA’s, academic institutions,
museums, private companies, ICA-members, and other interested parties
concerned with the preservation of the geographical production process
and willing to put their experience and knowledge into a joined project.

Please join us at the *21^st and 22^nd of May in Brussels* at the
National Geographic Institute in the Abbey Ter Kameren, already there
since 1200. For more information: read below for the Why? and Where? and
at our website http://geoweb.ugent.be/eurosdr

*Why?*

Geographic data has been subject to archiving in the form of maps for
centuries. While the preservation of paper maps is well understood and
put into practice, knowledge on the historical production process, and
especially the pre-digital production process in the 20th century as it
was practiced by many National Mapping Agencies (NMA), is disappearing
and has hardly been documented yet. The last witnesses of this era,
people and objects, will be gone in just a few years.

We would like to join forces in Europe in order to turn this situation,
so that future generations still can interprete our maps correctly. That
is why we organize for you a first kick-off workshop in Brussels,
Belgium on *the 21st (PM) and 22nd (AM) of May*. Please enroll today
(*Deadline: May 8th*). Best practices will be demonstrated and a
concrete plan will need to be developed to preserve our European 20th
century production processes.

*Who?*

A roundtable for European NMA’s, academic institutions, museums, private
companies, ICA-members, and other interested parties concerned with the
preservation of the geographical production process and willing to put
their experience and knowledge into a joined project. The initiative is
taken by a consortium of the Ghent University, André Streilein
(Swisstopo) and the National Geographic Institute in Belgium.

*Objective*

Create a European platform and the proposition of a concrete plan to
preserve and open the knowledge on the geographical production process
on a European scale.

*Where?*
The seminar will take place at the premises of the National Geographic
Institute at the Abbey Ter Kameren, a green oasis in the heart of
Brussels. The Abbey was founded around 1200, was rebuiltin the 18th
century and is surrounded by lush green Abbey gardens.

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*More info and registration*
Visit our workshop website http://geoweb.ugent.be/eurosdr/**