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February 2009
David Rumsey to give his map collection and digital library to Stanford University.
Read Stanford article.
Rumsey will continue to host and build the online library at
www.davidrumsey.com for years to come.
May 2008
David Rumsey gives the opening keynote address to the Digital Library Federation
Spring 2008 Forum. You can View a quicktime video of the talk
or Download an mp4 video (iPhone compatible).
February 2008
Rumsey Map Island opens in the virtual world of Second Life. Maps from the collection are rendered in huge scale in this 3D environment. Read an article about it in MIT's Technology Review or read about it in a Second Life blog by Bettina Tizzy
January 2008
Google Sky (part of Google Earth) adds a new layer for the 1792 Celestial Globe by Giovanni Cassini, from the David Rumsey Map Collection. Read the Astronomy Magazine Blog about the new feature.
November 2006
Google Earth launches a group of maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection in their 3D Globe. Read an article in PC Magazine, read the Google Earth Press Release, or
read David Rumsey's entry in the Google Blog.
April 2006
Cartographica Extraordinaire is reviewed
in The American Surveyor Magazine, March-April 2006 issue.
July 2005
View a quicktime video of David Rumsey’s opening talk at the 2005 Where 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, or Download an mp4 video (iPhone compatible) of the talk. Read
a review of the talk, or see the IT Conversations page
on the talk.
June 2005
MIT’s Technology Review
discusses David Rumsey’s historical map collection and highlights his work on remixing Lewis and Clark's published
map of their journey.
View the georeferenced (GIS) Lews and Clark map.
May 2005
An
updated version of "Historical Maps Online" by David Rumsey appears on the O'Reilly Network
in conjunction with Rumsey's talk at the
Where 2.0 Conference on June 29, 2005.
September 2004
San Francisco Chronicle interviews David
Rumsey on
how, and why, he built a historic map collection for the public to
enjoy. Read Article.
August 2004
SFWeekly,
a popular San Francisco publication, reviews "Cartographica Extraordinaire: The Historical Map Transformed."
David Rumsey gives Keynote Address to the Open Source
Conference, read Rupert Goodwins'
review on ZDNet
May 2004
ESRI Press publishes a new book, Cartographica
Extraordinaire: The Historical Map Transformed by David Rumsey and Edith M. Punt.
The book features over 120 maps from the online David Rumsey Map
Collection.
The Christian Science Monitor reviews the David Rumsey Map Collection in the May 4, 2004 issue.
October 2003
The Farber Gravestone Collection, with over 13,500 images of early American
gravestones, is put online by David Rumsey and the American Antiquarian Society. Read the
Luna Press Release or
View the Farber Collection
July 2003
"Historical Maps Online" by David Rumsey appears in Common-Place Magazine, an online
Journal of American History
Read Article
June 2003
"Mapping America" Exhibit at the San Francisco Airport features the David Rumsey
Map Collection.
Read Article or See
Images of the Exhibit
April 2003
New York Times Article on the Japanese Historical
Maps Web Site
Read Article
February 2003
University of California and David Rumsey provide online access to historic
maps of Japan http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/02/25_asianmaps.shtml
December 2002
Rizzoli Press publishes "Mapping The West" by
Paul Cohen, with an Introduction by David Rumsey, and selected
map images from the online David Rumsey Map Collection.
see Amazon.com listing and description of the book http://www.amazon.com
August 2002
Edward Tufte, noted information architect,
gives his "Highest recommendation" to the David Rumsey Map Collection
see "ASK E.T."
June 2002
And The Winner Is...David Rumsey Historical Map
Collection WINS Webby Award in Technical Achievement
Read the Luna press release
View all the winners
April 2002
David Rumsey to distribute The AMICO Library™ for
Higher Education and Scholarly Use
see Luna press release: http://www.lunaimaging.com/news/press_releases/rumsey_amico.html
"From Parchment to Ether, Fusing Historical Maps with Web
GIS" - David Rumsey
Collection featured in Geospatial Solutions Magazine
http://www.geospatial-online.com/geospatialsolutions/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=13780
March 2002
David Rumsey Internet GIS Service Expands with Addition
of 18th and 19th Century Boston.
http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/2002/mar/28/rumsey.html
"This is a Real Quest for Maps" - David
Rumsey Collection featured in Wired News
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,50785,00.html
January 2002
David Rumsey featured on "The Screen Savers" on
Tech TV
December 2001
"Centuries-Old Maps from The David Rumsey
Collection Come Alive with New Interactive Web Browser-Mapping And
Visualization Service Links 20th Century Geographic Data And Imagery
to One of The Largest Private Historical Map Collections in U.S." -
Article in Spatial News
http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/2001/dec/18/rumsey.html
March 2001
Papers - Museums and the Web 2001 - by David Rumsey
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2001/papers/rumsey/rumsey.html
September 2000
"State of the Art" - David Rumsey Collection
featured in Mercator's World Magazine
Read Article (pdf
format - Requires Adobe Acrobat)
April 2000
David Rumsey Collection selected as Yahoo Pick
of the Week
http://picks.yahoo.com/picks/20000410.html
Collection featured in D-Lib Magazine
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april00/04featured-collection.html
"Carto Graphic Design" - Collection featured
in Wired Magazine
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/eword.html?pg=3
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