The design and implementation problems with systems for archives of geographically indexed documents

Roland Rusiecki
Gdansk University of Technology
Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics
Department of Geoinformatics
Poland

Abstract

In typical archives, documents are indexed primarily by subject, author, title, and, to a lesser extent, by document type. Adding the possibility of geographic indexing can make the searching process much more cohesive and comprehensive.
This paper describes design and implementation problems with software for managing archives of geographically oriented documents. Apart from information about geographic indexing this paper also describes some issues specific for our country, e.g. work with documents that contain classified information or personal data.

Keywords:

archives of documents; geographic indexing; geographic scope

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