As of May 30, 2025, this site has been archived.

Hi! 👋 Thanks for visiting Cartinal. Please feel free to explore, but note that these guides and documentation pages are no longer maintained. Content may be outdated.

Technical documentation for LMEC digital projects has been migrated to the corresponding project's GitHub Wiki page in the @bplmaps repository. Future guides will be published as part of our forthcoming digital teaching resources platform.
Cartinal has been archived as of May 30, 2025. Please visit our GitHub page @bplmaps for technical documentation.

Documentation

The LMEC provides technical documentation for our data services and resources based on an assumption of prior knowledge with the projects. We provide narrative, step-by-step user guides in our Guides and Tutorials where you can learn more about each project.

Atlascope

  • Accessing Atlascope Data

    Notes about how to access the underlying data sources of the Atlascope project, including raster imagery, vector boundary files, and metadata records. Includes a list of all available atlas layers with data access access.

Data Archive

  • Data Schema Homepage

    Reference documentation for using the LMEC descriptive metadata schema for hosting open, humanistically-contextualized datasets.

Library Tools

  • Panel Truck

    A Vue-based web component for narrating stories with IIIF objects, static images, and web maps