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Archive > April 2010, Volume 24, Number 4 > ICA Website

ICA Website

  08/04/2010

 

ICA Home Page

Previous mention of the ICA website (GIM, August 2009) informed readers of the appearance on the site of Proceedings of all International Cartographic Conferences, from the nineteenth (Ottawa, 1999) to the twenty-third (Moscow, 2007). These are now joined by Proceedings of our most recent 2009 ICC in Santiago. The website itself is a dynamic resource and the premier advertisement of ICA to the world: the site is regularly updated to effectively communicate ICA work and output. It is hosted on behalf of ICA by the Cartography Research Group, part of the Institute of Geoinformation and Cartography at the Technical University of Vienna, Austria, where ICA vice-president Professor Georg Gartner and his excellent team of webmasters, Felix Ortag and Manuela Schmidt, are responsible for the outstanding design and maintenance of the site.

 

Record-keeper
ICA Map of the MonthThe website functions as a repository of standard information about ICA, both for those new to it (the Home page details the ICA mission and recent and forthcoming activities) and those interested in the minutiae of its organisation (Statutes, Strategic Plan and other documentation listed under The Association tab). Acting as Association record-keeper, the website News section holds every copy of ICA News (the Association's biannual newsletter) since the start of the millennium, along with an archive of news items. One recent innovation to grace the News section is the Map of the Month, which provides a showcase for cartographic products of excellence. Map of the Month items will initially comprise prizewinning entries from the International Map Exhibition held at each ICC: maps from the 2009 Santiago ICC are currently being selected. However, the range of products displayed may be expanded to include those created by ICA Affiliate Members, important supporters of ICA whose section of the website has been expanded to allow them to further promote themselves.

 

History and Research
The History of ICA is also well represented, particularly celebrations for the fiftieth anniversary in 2009: photographs of this event may be found under The Association, History tab. The website has recently also added further items relating to ICA activities. The Association's Research Agenda (described in GIM, July 2009) is now available for inspection and, as this document is intended to be dynamic and interactive, there is now a facility for commenting on the Agenda; such is welcome.

 

Interactivity
A further example of interactivity embedded in the website is email subscription to news items, establishment of icawebsite on Twitter, and RSS feeds; all enabling communication of website updates to interested viewers. ICA is grateful for the high-quality work undertaken by the staff at TU Vienna; their efforts truly show the way in which information about cartography can be disseminated using standard and advanced web tools.

 

References
http://www.icaci.org




     


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