Eastern Bloc Borderlands: Digitizing Russian Military Topographic Maps of Eastern Europe, 1883-1947
Presenter: Theresa Quill, Indiana University Bloomington
Copresenter: Michelle Dalmau, Indiana University
The Russian Military Topographic Map Collection at Indiana University (IU) contains just over 4,000 maps of Eastern Europe at various scales. In the years surrounding World War II, these maps were captured in the field by opposing forces, including German and American troops; a history told by stamps on the maps themselves. While Soviet military maps from the Cold War era are abundant, these maps provide a view of the pre-war landscape. Digitization of this collection includes georeferencing and creating a custom metadata scheme to trace changes in place names and provenance, as the maps were captured and recaptured.
This presentation was made at the 2018 annual meeting of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) in Norfolk. For more information on NACIS, check out [ Ссылка ].
