2010 SHD ANNUAL MEETING: Information about our September meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico is being updated often. Click here to find program, optional tour, hotel and registration form.
FUTURE SHD MEETINGS: Dates have been announced for SHD meetings in the coming several years. Mark your calendars now as follows:
SIX DAYS OF MAPS IN ARLINGTON TEXAS, October 2010. Programs continue to be announced for the multi-day map/discoveries/cartographic events next October in Arlington, Texas. First, on Friday, October 8, 2010, the Seventh Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography, with the theme “ Charting the Cartography of Companies (Company Mapping, 1600-1900). Then on October 9, the Texas Map Society Meeting. Finally, from October 10 through 13, the Annual Meeting of the International Cartographic Association. The registration form for all three events is now online.
The Society is sad to report the passing of 2003 SHD Fellow Jenkins Garrett on January 27, 2010 at age 95. See his SHD citation and story at the SHD Fellows page and view a local obituary at http://www.star-telegram.com/obituaries/story/1931447-p2.htm.
SHD 2009 in Raleigh. The meeting photographs have been posted to the meeting website. Click here. SHD Past Meeting Programs. Programs of many of the Society’s past meetings are available by clicking on the various years at the Society “Previous and Future Meetings” web page. Click here.
Founding member John Parker, and early members Sanford Bederman, Barbara Backus McCorkle, Norman J. W. Thrower, and Carol Urness have described the founding and development of the Society in remarks delivered at our annual meetings Click here to read those remarks.
Click HERE to find the second/definitive call for papers and the registration details of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) Commission on the History of Cartography part of the upcoming triple event in Arlington, Texas in October 2010. The ICA 3rd International Symposium will incorporate sessions featuring the 130th anniversary of USGS and the ICA Commission on Maps and Society. Prominent speakers of the other two events (Garrett Lectures and TMS Fall Meeting) include experts like Peter van der Krogt on the Dutch cartography of North America. Thus, a wonderful series of events with something for all friends of cartography is on offer and certainly worthwhile to make the trip to Texas in October. The joint online registration for all three events including excursions should be available sometime in March.
NEW PUBLISHER FOR TERRAE INCOGNITAE
Maney is one of the few remaining independent journal publishers operating internationally. It publishes a significant number of journals that cover cultural and geographical history, including The Cartographic Journal, Survey Review, Folk Life, Dutch Crossings, Italian Studies, Hispanic Research Journal and Post-Medieval Archaeology. Its complete list of journals can be seen at www.maney.co.uk/journals, and more information can be found via the Maney History and Humanities Spotlight at http://maney.co.uk/history_and_humanities_spotlight .
Maney expects to develop Terrae Incognitae in a number of ways, with the provision of an online version and full back issue archive online for institutional subscribers, freely searchable electronic abstracts, inclusion in the CrossRef system of hyperlinked references, and a table of contents alerts service for all subscribers and readers.
The 2010 volume will also see a change in text, design and layout as required for online, as well as print production. We will be able to publish illustrations in colour online, enhancing the visual impact for readers. The cover will also undergo a redesign.
We look forward to working with the editorial team to continue the established tradition of publishing issues on subjects of international importance.
NOTICE OF INTENT TO DIGITIZE BACK ISSUES OF TERRAE INCOGNITAE
With the help of Maney Publishing, the Society for the History of Discoveries intends to scan and make available in electronic form the back issues of Terrae Incognitae. As a means of easy access to previously published papers, of which few subscribers will have copies, we expect this to be a considerable enhancement of the benefits of the institutional subscription.
Many of you will be familiar with the current procedure in which authors assign copyright (for both print and electronic publication) to the Society. This does not limit an author’s ability to reuse material, but ensures that Maney, on our behalf, can protect the copyright internationally. The papers we published previously, in our back issues, were not administered in this way, nor was permission sought to obtain electronic rights. For earlier issues, such a form of publishing was never conceived. It would exceed the resources available to the Society to identify all the authors who have previously contributed to Terrae Incognitae and obtain their (or their Estate executor where an author is deceased) permission to republish their work electronically. In any case, we are very doubtful that the addresses that we had at the time of publication are still current.
We are therefore writing this notice to ask for any authors who object to the proposed policy to let us know as soon as possible. We think it will be a pity, but if the permission, which we will be taking as given, is withdrawn, we will reluctantly omit their work from the scanned back archive. This will inevitably distort the record to a certain extent, but we will respect the decision.
We expect this notice will be seen and read by most people involved in the activities of the Society, and we would be grateful if you could draw it to the attention of all your colleagues. We will be proceeding with this scanning project in the next few months, and need to ensure that notice of our intentions is disseminated widely.
Marguerite Ragnow Editor, Terrae Incognitae
Thanks to late President Eric Wolf’s excellent bookkeeping, you can find within this SHD website a full listing of those who serve now and have served in the past as SHD Officers (that includes Presidents, Vice Presidents, Secretary-Treasurers and Council Members) and Editors of Terrae Incognitae.
