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Record W2023106940 · doi:10.3138/carto.47.3.1147

Georeferencing Historical Cartography: A Quality-Control Method

2012· article· en· W2023106940 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Andrea Favretto

Bibliographic record

VenueCartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGeographic Information Systems Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGeoreferenceMetadataGridFrame (networking)Computer scienceGeographyCartographySet (abstract data type)Control (management)Measure (data warehouse)Data miningComputer visionArtificial intelligenceGeodesyWorld Wide WebTelecommunications

Abstract

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The use of historical cartography within a GIS environment to realize long-term change-detection studies of a certain area has become an established and fairly generalized practice. As is well known, the prerequisite condition for such analyses is the thorough rectification of the historical map's digital format. This article offers a methodology for creating a form of “accuracy assessment” for georeferencing executed on a historical map, based on a comprehensible control procedure that can be completed within a reasonable time frame. The fundamental idea is to use a set number of points to measure the gap between their positions on a georeferenced historical map and the reality of the territory. The control procedure creates a series of parameters to be added as metadata on the georeferenced map, constituted by the mean error distance and consequent standard deviation and by the percentage of an area examined on a map, drawn from a control grid superimposed on it.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.030
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.091
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.030
Threshold uncertainty score0.156

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0300.091
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0050.006
Science and technology studies0.0010.003
Scholarly communication0.0040.003
Open science0.0020.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.034
GPT teacher head0.373
Teacher spread0.339 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2012
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