summaries
M.A. Damoiseaux W. van de Guchte - The last Water-
staatskaart!?
Thefirst sheet of the Waterstaatskaart (water management
mapof The Netherlands was issued in 1864. With the fifth
edition Coming to an end, in 1988 a project was started to
prepare a new edition. Main changes were thought to be neces-
sary, due to new laws and regulations, user-inquiries and new
technologies.
In this project a Water Management Information System
(WIS) has been designed. The core of this will be a database,
from which automated map production will be possible, as
well as all kinds of GIS-applications. And as a pilot project a
complete proof sheet for the sixth edition has been produced.
But due to a need to cut down governmental expenses drasti-
cally, it was suddenly decided in June 1991 to discontinue the
publication of the Waterstaatskaart. However, the supply of
data from a WIS may go on, provided that all expenses will be
covered by paying customers. Therefore, the WIS-concept is
now reviewed with strong emphasis on marketing.
Although the future WIS might still be capable of producing
water management maps, it is not very likely that anyone will
order a uniform map series for the whole of The Netherlands.
for reason of flexibility: each Institution builds up its own
sub-database with unique records. Together all the sub-
databases form the main database which can be consulted for
information retrieval and for deriving records from the other
sub-databases during the cataloguing process.
On-line data input and retrieval takes place in a Windows
environment and is characterized by extensive support facili-
ties. The authority fites for area, subject, name and title can be
directly consulted and entries not yet available can be immedi-
ately requested. CCK offers several on-line catalogues. Fur-
thermore, extensive search facilities for e.g. coordinates and
specific cartographic features will be available. For off-line
data input the descriptions have to be recorded on a diskette by
means of a specifically constructed data entry program for an
IBM PC or compatible. Subsequently, the records are
uploaded from the floppy disc to the main database. The
article gives an overview of various forms of Output, hardware
requirements and costs.
Participants in CCK obtain optimal local accessibility of carto
graphic collections. By using CCK they also contribute greatly
to the management of cartographic information and materials
on a national scale.
P.J.M. Douma <6 J.P. Heerema - CCK on-line: The Nether-
lands in a line
CCK is a national information System for registration and
retrieval of cartographic materials and all other spatial infor
mation. CCK is maintained by the 'Koninklijke Bibliotheek',
the national library of The Netherlands, and is meant for all
Dutch cartographic institutions interested in cooperative cata
loguing and management of their map collections. Access to
the system is possible via the national data networks SURFnet
and Datanet or via a direct connection.
CCK has been developed by the Cartography Section of the
University of Utrecht. At this moment the conversion from an
off-line to an on-line system has almost been realized. This
project is financed by the Netherlands Organisation for Li
braries and Information Services (NBBI) and the 'Koninklijke
Bibliotheek'.
In this article the present Situation in the management of carto
graphic information in The Netherlands is described. It is
stated that both the national and the local accessibility of
cartographic collections are still insufficient due to various
causes. CCK is meant to improve this Situation.
Several distinguishing characteristics of CCK are given. The
system uses international Standards like ISBD(CM) and
UNIMARC. CCK offers additional facilities like a flexible
registration of multi-level descriptions and the assignment of
cataloguing scope levels to the descriptions by the cataloguer.
In this way elaborate as well as concise descriptions can be
recorded. The system does not support 'shared cataloguing
R.M. Hootsmans J.F.M. van der Wel - Quality informa
tion in support of the integration of spatial data
Geographica! Information Systems (GIS) can be considered a
powerful tool in the handling and - more specifically -
integration of spatial data. However, these technological de-
velopments are founded on an incomplete theoretical frame-
work, which hampers a really meaningful integration proce-
dure. More information about both data being used and pro-
cedures being applied is required in order to judge the results
by their fitness for use. This quality information is in fact
meta-information and concerns to a large extent only the phys-
ical quality of a data set. Implementation of more conceptual
quality information in an 'intelligent', knowledge-based Com
puter environment, is suggested as a possibility to handle the
integration problem. The actual formalisation of this know-
ledge necessitates broadening of the theoretical basis. Carto-
graphers have to face this challenge; at the Cartography Sec
tion of Utrecht State University, the gauntlet has been taken
up in two research projects.
H. Kramer G.J. van der Weijden - Graphic design Software
for MS-DOS Computers: the applicability in cartography
The Apple Macintosh with Software like FreeHand is weit
known among cartographers. Far less known are the possibili-
ties of using MS-DOS based Computers. After the release of
MS Windows 3.0, some useful graphic design Software for
cartographers became available. This article focuses on three
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