Integration of Virtual Map Rooms as a support tool in historical and social research

At the present time almost all map libraries on the Internet are image collections generated by the digitization of early maps. This type of graphics files provides researchers with the possibility of accessing and visualizing historical cartographic information keeping in mind that this information has a degree of quality that depends upon elements such as the accuracy of the digitization process and proprietary constraints (e.g. visualization, resolution downloading options, copyright, use constraints). In most cases, access to these map libraries is useful only as a first approach and it is not possible to use those maps for scientific work due to the sparse tools available to measure, match, analyze and/or combine those resources with different kinds of cartography. This paper presents a method to enrich virtual map rooms and provide historians and other professional with a tool that let them to make the most of libraries in the digital era.

Producción social, proceso participativo e intervención sostenible en el espacio público de centros históricos

La formación académica de profesionales arquitectos bajo enfoques cientificistas y disciplinares aislados de la realidad espacial y social para la cual proyectan, como modelo de conocimiento y formación da paso al desarrollo de una praxis contemporánea de consulta y creación colectiva, tomada por los diseñadores como punto de partida para la exploración formal de proyectos de diseño urbano concertados y de investigación social. Este proyecto de investigación formativa con iniciativa ciudadana y académica, se basa en un método de diagnóstico y diseño participativo, para la valoración e intervención del patrimonio urbano-arquitectónico de la ciudad de Pamplona, con aplicación específica en el diseño de espacio público en el centro histórico de la ciudad de Pamplona. ABSTRACT Academic formation of professional architects, under the scientific and disciplinary approaches, isolate from space and social reality, as a model of knowledge and formation, leads to the development of a contemporary praxis of consultation and collective creation, taken by the designers as a starting point for the formal exploration of concerted urban design projects and social research. This project of formative research involving civil and academic initiative is based on a diagnostic method and participative design for the evaluation and intervention of Pamplona‘s architectural and urban heritage, specifically applied to the design of public space, in its historical center, based in the relationship that is built between the architects in formation and the community.