26 Will Today’s Internet Maps be Available Tomorrow? The Preservation and Archiving of the Cybercartographic Atlas of Antarctica Through Action Research

Preserving and archiving geomatics data and atlases is a growing and unresolved problem. The Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre at Carleton University has an ongoing interest in the more effective archiving and preservation of geospa-tial digital data and has actively participated in a numbe...

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Main Authors: Tracey P. Lauriault, D. R. Fraser Taylor, Peter L. Pulsifer
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Summary:Preserving and archiving geomatics data and atlases is a growing and unresolved problem. The Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre at Carleton University has an ongoing interest in the more effective archiving and preservation of geospa-tial digital data and has actively participated in a number of forums to address this issue. The Cybercartographic Atlas of Antarctica (CAA) is a collaborative, scien-tifi c and innovative open source, open standard and interoperable distributed atlas that includes multimedia, multimodal and multisensory data. The CAA was part of