Papers by Katherine (Kathy) Hart
Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, 2012
It gives the co-editors of the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries great ple... more It gives the co-editors of the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries great pleasure to announce that the article authored by Imelda K. Moise, Ezekiel Kalipeni, and Leo C. Zulu, “Analyzing Geographical Access to HIV Sentinel Clinics in Relation to Other Health Clinics in Zambia,” has won the Best Paper of the Year Award for Volume 7 (2011). A unanimous choice of the award committee, this paper receives the award for meeting all aspects of the committee’s section criteria and, in particular, for excellent writing and thoughtfully applied analyses. The high quality of the papers appearing in the 2011 volume made the committee’s decision very difficult. By allocating two special issues to “Geographic Opportunities in Medicine,” the editors have opened new communication and collaboration possibilities between geospatial professionals and medical researchers. From research on citing health care facilities to access to maternity wards, all the authors addressed some of the most important and most difficult issues of our world. The Moise, Kalipeni, and Zulu research on HIV/AIDS in Zambia examines a particularly difficult medical and social issue. The paper presents solid data on access to health care and uses geographic information systems (GIS) as a data visualization tool. The authors’ use of geospatial data demonstrates the growing importance of GIS for understanding equitable access to health care. The authors conclude that if governmental and non-governmental organizations planning and locating HIV/AIDS clinics took geography into consideration, the accuracy and reliability of HIV/AIDS data would increase and facilities would be more equitably located. The authors situate their work through a review of previous applications of GIS and spatial analysis toward the study of health care accessibility and in prior work undertaken in Zambia. The steps in the data analysis are clearly explained and amply illustrated with maps. The authors have taken full advantage of GIS and demonstrate that better data gathering will lead to better services to combat the disease. While they applied GIS to the specific problems in Zambia, the ideas, analyses, and tools are transferable to other geographies and other issues as well. The quality of the writing was an essential factor for this award. The journal’s subscribers are diverse, yet the authors’ ability to explain their data,
International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, Mar 1, 2020
Government Information Quarterly, 2006
What do you do to start reading coast mappers? Searching the book that you love to read first or ... more What do you do to start reading coast mappers? Searching the book that you love to read first or find an interesting book that will make you want to read? Everybody has difference with their reason of reading a book. Actuary, reading habit must be from earlier. Many people may be love to read, but not a book. It's not fault. Someone will be bored to open the thick book with small words to read. In more, this is the real condition. So do happen probably with this coast mappers.
Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, 2013
Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, 2009
It gives the Co-Editors of the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries great pleasure to announce th... more It gives the Co-Editors of the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries great pleasure to announce that the article authored by Marco Petrella, "Guillaume DeLisle's Carte du Duché de Bourgogne: the Role of Central and Peripheral Authorities in the Construction of a Provincial Territory in France in the Early 18th Century" has won the Best Paper of the Year Award for Volume 5 (2009). This paper was the unanimous choice of the award committee, based on it meeting all aspects of the committee's selection criteria. Members of the selection committee noted "it has the most relevance to current issues and trends from an international perspective, has wide ranging relevance to practitioners, high value and was very well presented." Mr. Petrella's enthusiasm for historical cartographic research and attention to detail are clearly present in his article about one of early cartography's well-known masters, Guillaume Delisle, and his map that moved the science and art of mapmaking in a new direction. The waning years of King Louis XIV's reign saw major changes in society, particularly in the historical timeframe that has come to be known as the Age of Enlightenment, with shifts in political power, military situations, and broader access to knowledge. Delisle's map, Carte du Duché de Bourgogne, produced in two sheets in 1709, is but one reflection of a host of these changes. Mr. Petrella states, "One of the objectives of this paper is that of reconstructing the evolution of those relationships, which significantly show the passage from the absolutism of Louis XIV to the crisis of the centralizing model." This article brings out a host of information on many levels, from the founding of France's Royal Academy of Sciences (Académie Royale des Sciences) in 1666 and Delisle's role and position within it, to the military situation of the time and how that impacted information shown on the map. It also includes a description of the person of Guillaume Delisle and his trials and tribulations, as well as highlighting the bigger picture of the creation and recognition of a new political province in France, Burgundy. It is a fascinating read with the interplay of various forces at different levels and times, was extensively researched as witnessed by the voluminous footnotes, and is enhanced by several illustrations of not only the specific map in question, but parts of others that played a role in the creation of the Carte du Duché de Bourgogne. Finally, another outcome of this article is that it shows the importance of retaining manuscript and archival materials; many of the details Best Paper of the Year Award surrounding the creation of this historic map would not be known today had the associated records and maps not been kept and safeguarded for future generations. Congratulations are extended to Marco Petrella for providing readers and researchers everywhere an article that is informative, insightful, and eyecatching, and that will extend conversations about the history of mapmaking in France into the future.
Text-based Flat data structure Non-semantic Deployed in closed systems BIBFRAME Description Linke... more Text-based Flat data structure Non-semantic Deployed in closed systems BIBFRAME Description Linked descriptions Graph data structure Semantically-enabled Deployed on open web Library of Congress BIBFRAME Model 3 Linked Data for Libraries 2 Benefits of supporting library bibliographic metadata in a LOD model include: • Increased discoverability of library resources on the open web (e.g. exposure in search engine results and integration of library catalog data with other LOD applications and services) • Disambiguation of descriptive information through the use of Universal Resource Identifiers (URIs) and structured sematic web ontologies • Improved interoperability of library catalog data, including new methods of directly querying collections of library resources and enabling of the library catalog as a research dataset The Linked Data for Libraries (LD4L) project is a multiinstitutional effort that will explore applying Linked Open Data (LOD) models, based on the Library of Congress' Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BIBFRAME) 1, to the bibliographic description of library resources. The Linked Data for Libraries Cartographic Materials sub-project will focus on evaluating ontologies and vocabularies best-suited to the description of cartographic resources (including maps, atlases, and geographic datasets) with the aim of establishing a set of library community shared best practices for describing cartographic and geospatial resources.
The fields of GIScience and Library/Information Science have numerous overlapping interests, incl... more The fields of GIScience and Library/Information Science have numerous overlapping interests, including spatial search. Each discipline is devoted to meaningful description and organization of place names; resulting in gazetteer development and related library catalog data that informs spatial search mechanisms. As with gazetteer development, a robust infrastructure of cataloging standards and codes, built over many decades, has resulted in an extensive place name index, referred to as ‘geographic name authority records,’ used as the formal official name in the catalog system. These name authority records function to re-direct searches which may include a variant name to those with the official form of the name and thus, when associated with geographic coordinates has the dual role of a tool and a dataset, as is the role of gazetteers. The larger concepts of place name identification and their conceptual structuring in the library catalog system, and their use in spatial searches can...
Journal of Map and Geography Libraries, Jul 1, 2010
Theses and dissertations play a significant role in the scholarly literature and often refer to l... more Theses and dissertations play a significant role in the scholarly literature and often refer to locations of interest or regions under study. Through geoparsing , which is the identification and disambiguation of place names, we have created a tool to generate interactive maps of the geographic locations referenced in theses and dissertations. Our visualization affords increased awareness of the numerous locations being researched and which departments and majors are studying each location. More broadly, the interface supports multidisciplinary research, student recruitment and faculty collaboration. Using geographic and gazetteer metadata and open source mapping applications, this tool provides researchers with serendipitous geographic and interdisciplinary connections. The beta version consists of several DSpace curation tasks to take a given ETD through each step of the metadata creation and mapping processes. Once the tool has suggested geospatial metadata for an ETD, the DSpace...
Presentation for the 2017 UNT Open Access Symposium. This presentation provides background on the... more Presentation for the 2017 UNT Open Access Symposium. This presentation provides background on the Denton Declaration, an open data manifesto created in 2012, before introducing panelists for a discussion on the future of open data and open access.
Presented at the Digital Humanities 2013 International Conference at the University of Nebraska-L... more Presented at the Digital Humanities 2013 International Conference at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 16-19 July, 2013
Library Resources & Technical Services, 1994
To catalog audiovisuals, information must be taken from the title screens. Often these data are n... more To catalog audiovisuals, information must be taken from the title screens. Often these data are not consistent with data on the labels, containers, and accompanying written materials. The chief source concepts for audiovisuals was examined through a comparison of citations from fully cataloged audiovisual records and their corresponding citations from bibliographic sourcebooks. Specific bibliographic elements were evaluated regarding access and descriptive cataloging. The comparison revealed much similarity with title and other title information; however, series, producer, credits, and dates are more completely described in the fully cataloged record than in the sourcebook citation. There was no evidence to support cataloging using only eye-readable materials. Cataloigng using the chief source of information consistently provides more bibliographic data. The arrangement and completeness of the sourcebooks were also evaluated.
Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, 2017
Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, 2017
GEOGRAPHIC FIELDS IN MARC CODE 001 4021425 005 20130829110002.0 008 121009s2013 txu bk 001 0 eng ... more GEOGRAPHIC FIELDS IN MARC CODE 001 4021425 005 20130829110002.0 008 121009s2013 txu bk 001 0 eng c 010 __ |a 2012041446 035 __ |a (OCoLC)ocn813301036 040 __ |a TXA/DLC |c DLC |d TXA 043 __ |a n-us-tx 049 __ |a TXAM 050 00 |a ML3477.8.D35 |b G68 2013 082 00 |a 781.6409764/2812 |2 23 100 1_ |a Govenar, Alan B., |d 1952-245 10 |a Deep Ellum : |b the other side of Dallas / |c Alan Govenar and Jay Brakefield. 250 __ |a 1st Texas A&M University Press ed. 260 __ |a College Station : |b Texas A&M University Press, |c c2013. 300 __ |a x, 307 p. |b ill. ; |c 24 cm. 490 1_ |a John and Robin Dickson series in Texas music 500 __ |a Previously published under title: Deep Ellum and Central Track. Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, 1998. 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references, discography and index. 505 0_ |a Deep Ellum: fact and fiction-"Deep Elem blues": song of the street-The railroads create Deep Ellum-William Sidney Pittman: architect of Deep Ellum-Black Dallas-Jewish pawnbrokers and merchants of Deep Ellum-Blind Lemon Jefferson: downhome blues-The contemporaries of Blind Lemon-Blind Willie Johnson and Arizona Dranes: the "holy blues" of Deep Ellum-Alex Moore: Dallas piano blues. 650 _0 |a Popular music |z Texas |z Dallas |x History and criticism. 650 _0 |a African Americans |z Texas |z Dallas |x Music |x History and criticism. 651 _0 |a Deep Ellum (Dallas, Tex.) |x History. 651 _0 |a Dallas (Tex.) |x Social life and customs. 700 1_ |a Brakefield, Jay F., |d 1945 830 _0 |a John and Robin Dickson series in Texas music.
Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, 2016
In one’s lifetime, one may meet and get to know individuals who are experts in a discipline or ar... more In one’s lifetime, one may meet and get to know individuals who are experts in a discipline or area, but it is unusual to become acquainted with someone who is an expert in two or more. The editors were very pleased when Dr. Ronald E. Grim accepted their offer to share his career in the form of an interview, notably because his experiences are deep and rich in two areas, archives and archival management of resources, and map librarianship. It is also a pleasure to be able to share Dr. Grim’s career with our readers so that they become aware of another luminary in our midst. Dr. Ronald E. Grim is the Curator of Maps for the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library (Figure 1), which can be found online at http://maps.bpl.org/. The Map Center is located on the first floor of the Library’s historic McKim Building. In 2011, the map collection was moved from the third floor of the Johnson Building where it had been stored since 2005 after it was consolidated from several other locations throughout the Library. According to the Center’s website, “The Leventhal Map Center is ranked among the top ten in the United States for the size of its collection, the significance of its historic (pre-1900) material, and its advanced digitization program. It is unique among the major collections because it also combines these features with exceptional educational programs to advance geographic literacy among students in grades K to 12 and enhance the teaching of subjects from history to mathematics to language arts.”
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Papers by Katherine (Kathy) Hart