How to Digitize Completely: Interactive Geovizualization of a Sketch Map from the Kuzmina Archive

Elena Lazarenko, Aleksandr Riaposov


Abstract
This paper discusses work in progress on the digitization of a sketch map of the Taz River basin – a region that is lacking highly detailed open-source cartography data. The original sketch is retrieved from the archive of Selkup materials gathered by Angelina Ivanovna Kuzmina in the 1960s and 1970s. The data quality and challenges that come with it are evaluated and a task-specific workflow is designed. The process of the turning a series of hand-drawn images with non-structured geographical and linguistic data into an interactive, geographically precise digital map is described both from linguistic and technical perspectives. Furthermore, the map objects in focus are differentiated based on the geographical type of the object and the etymology of the name. This provides an insight into the peculiarities of the linguistic history of the region and contributes to the cartography of the Uralic languages.
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2022.eurali-1.4
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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June
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2022
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Marseille, France
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Atul Kr. Ojha, Sina Ahmadi, Chao-Hong Liu, John P. McCrae
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EURALI
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European Language Resources Association
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Elena Lazarenko and Aleksandr Riaposov. 2022. How to Digitize Completely: Interactive Geovizualization of a Sketch Map from the Kuzmina Archive. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 22–27, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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How to Digitize Completely: Interactive Geovizualization of a Sketch Map from the Kuzmina Archive (Lazarenko & Riaposov, EURALI 2022)
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