C.P. Kavafis

Curriculum vitae

Cartifact Gallery (First release 11 October 1999; Updated till 1 May 2012)

Including the essay 'A phenomenology of cartifacts'.

History and Cartobibliography

• For pleasure and support (bis dat qui cito dat). In: La cartografia dels Paisos Baixos, p. 141-258 (47.2 Mb)
• The Dutch (carto-)bibliographic school / Jan Smits
• List of "Dutch" atlases up to 1940 and (partial) facsimiles thereof / Jan Smits
• Wikipedia
• August Heinrich Petermann en.wikipedia
• Justus Perthes Publishers en.wikipedia
• Uitgeverij Justus Perthes nl.wikipedia

Cataloguing

• Automation and multi-part description / Jan Smits (15 Kb)
  From: The LIBER Quarterly 2(2)1992, pp. 128-136.
• Describing digital maps with ISBD and MARC: problems and possible solutions / Jan Smits
  From: The LIBER Quarterly 5(3)1993, pp. 292-311.
• Mathematical data for bibliographic descriptions / Jan Smits
• Family of ISBDs : Dutch translations : Regels voor titelbeschrijving
• Report about developments in retroconversion from the Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBER / Jan Smits
  From: The LIBER Quarterly 3(1)1991, pp. 90-96.
• Rapport sur l'avancement des projets de conversion retrospective / Jan Smits
  From : Inspel 28(1994)1, pp. 131-138.

Collection management

• Frontiers of access to cartographic materials within a repository library
  From: Liber bulletin, 28, p. 34-39
• Collection profile 1995 Depository Map Collection / Jan Smits (English)
• Collectieprofiel 1995 Kaartenverzameling Depot van Nederlandse Publikaties / Jan Smits (Dutch)
• General description of the map collection [of the Royal Library] / Jan Smits
• A third-level access approach: map collection profiles / Jan Smits
  From: LIBER Quarterly 8(2)1998, pp. 178-193.

Conservation

• Conservering van bijlagen, een kapitaal probleem: kanttekeningen van de kaartbeheerder / Jan Smits(DUTCH)

Geoscapes: Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, ISSN 1542-0353

• Abbreviations used in articles in the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries (Integrating resource, September 2007-…).
• URL's cited in the main body of the text of the articles in the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries (Integrating resource, September 2007-…).
• URL's cited in the reference section of the articles in the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries per article (Integrating resource, September 2007-…).

Metadata for digital spatial data

• Digital metadata: standards for communication and preservation / Jan Smits [1996]
  Presentation for the LIBER Annual General Conference in May 1996 in Malta.
  From: LIBER Quarterly 6(1996)4, pp. 383-406.
• The creation and integration of metadata in spatial data collections / Jan Smits [1997] (45 Kb)
  Part of the IFLA course: Digital Map Librarianship.
• Developments in spatial data management: Dutch impressions / Jan Smits, [1998] click on "Klik hier om te starten" or Power Point presentation. (1,848 Kb)
  Presentation for the 35th Annual Symposium of The British Cartographic Society and the Map Curator's Group Workshop, University of Keele, United Kingdom, September 10, 1998 (published in the proceedings, pp. 10-19).
• Libraries mapped: a question of research! Release 0.3, 14 July 2009
• Libraries mapped: a question of research! Release 0.2, 5 Januari 2009
• Libraries mapped: a question of research! Release 0.1, 23 October 2008
• Metadata: contributions please! / Jan Smits, [1999] click on "Klik hier om te starten" or Power Point presentation (1,944 Kb).
  Presentation for the Working Group for Mapcuratorship and the Arbeitskreis Kartenkuratoren, 19 May 1999, during the Dutch-German Cartographical Congress, MECC, Maastricht, Netherlands, 17-20 May 1999.

Reproduction

• The topographic record of The Netherlands 1800-1992 for sale./ Jan Smits
  From: The Cartographic Journal, journal of the British Cartographic Society, Vol. 30(1)1993, pp. 30-39.

Schooling

• Developments in professional schooling for curators of map collections and topographical-historical atlases in The Netherlands
  From: Liber bulletin, 28, p. 34-39

Transition in Mapcuratorship

• Geospatial data access: can we manage to shift?
  In: Inspel : official organ of the IFLA Division of Special Libraries, Vol. 36 (2002) No. 1, pp. 22-48.
• Can a map be a geographic information retrieval tool?
  From: LIBER Quarterly: the journal of European research libraries, vol. 10 (2000), No. 4, pp. 504-515
• Report on the 'Inquiry into Map-Use and User-Habits in Europe' / Jan Smits
  From: LIBER Quarterly, the journal of European research libraries, ISSN 1435-5205, Vol. 1(1991), No 3., pp. 283-310.
• The Necessity and Nuissance of Survival or How to keep to our senses / Jan Smits
  From: LIBER Quarterly 9(1999)2, pp. 140-148.
  Power Point presentation. (200 Kb)
  Presentation for the 11th conference of the Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBER, Kraków, Poland, September 16, 1998.
• An idealised user-configuration / Jan Smits
  Presentation for the workshop "Verteilte Bereitstellung digitaler Karten in Bibliotheken", Göttingen, Germany, 16 October 2000.
  As MS PowerPoint presentation [18 Mb!!!]

International Mapcuratorship

• Homepage Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche, Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBER (Webmaster 1995-2012)