Working Group on the History of ICA
- ICA Archives
- to identify, assess, organise, digitise and preserve ICA records and documents held at various locations around the world
- to recommend strategies for discoverability, accessibility and storage of ICA archives
- to recommend management solutions concerning ICA records
- to actively search for new documents relevant to ICA history
- to record, document and preserve oral history concerned with ICA
- ICA Chronicle
- to research and document the history of ICA
- to develop foundations for the knowledge base concerning ICA
- to publish results of the work undertaken (ICA News, journal articles, etc)
- ICA Hub
- to provide support and expertise to ICA community (Committees, Commissions, ICA members) relating to Association's history and heritage
- to answer general enquiries concerning ICA and its history
- to recommend strategies for sustaining institutional knowledge into the future
Website of the Working Group on the History of ICA
Chair:Igor Drecki, editor of the ICA News
The University of Auckland Library
Private Bag 92019
Auckland 1142
New Zealand
e-mail: i.drecki@auckland.ac.nz
Working Group on the Transformation of National Mapping Agencies
- To facilitate NMAs for their second transformation in the big data era.
- To promote NMA alignment to the United Nations' new Integrated Geospatial Information Framework.
- To network geospatial researchers who are interested in the digital transformation of NMAs.
- To organize sessions and workshops for exploring related issues on new ways of mapping, AI/machine learning, new maps/data services in a cloud/mobile environment.
- To communicate, disseminate, and publish as appropriate the efforts and findings of the Working Group through various communication and publication channels.
Chair: Bin JiangDivision of GIScience
Faculty of Engineering and Sustainable Development
University of Gävle
SE-801 76 Gävle
Sweden
e-mail: bin.jiang@hig.se
personal website
Vice-chair: Juha OksanenFinnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI), Geoinformatics and Cartography
National Land Survey of Finland
Finland
e-mail: juha.oksanen@nls.fi
Working Group on Body of Knowledge on Cartography
Terms of reference will follow
Chair: Georg Gartner
Institute of Geoinformation and Cartography
Vienna University of Technology
1040 Vienna
Austria
phone: +43 1 58801 12611
e-mail: georg.gartner@tuwien.ac.at
Vice-chair: Lynn Usery
Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science
U.S. Geological Survey
1400 Independence Rd.
Rolla, MO 65401-2502
phone: +1 573-308-3837
e-mail: usery@usgs.gov
Chair: Georg GartnerInstitute of Geoinformation and Cartography
Vienna University of Technology
1040 Vienna
Austria
phone: +43 1 58801 12611
e-mail: georg.gartner@tuwien.ac.at
Vice-chair: Lynn UseryCenter of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science
U.S. Geological Survey
1400 Independence Rd.
Rolla, MO 65401-2502
phone: +1 573-308-3837
e-mail: usery@usgs.gov
For working groups of previous terms please consult the working groups archive.
