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Language Atlas of the Pacific Geo-Registered - GIS Dataset

Registered scans of the maps from the Language Atlas of the Pacific Area (excluding the maps of Japan) are made available through the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) Metadata Clearinghouse as a result of cooperation between Academia Sinica and the ECAI Austronesian Atlas Team led by David Blundell and Lawrence Crissman. The Australian Academy of the Humanities, which owns the copyright to the available maps, has graciously permitted their reproduction and distribution in this digital format, and we are grateful for their support. Any public use of the maps should acknowledge their source and copyright ownership.

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DC_Title GIS spatial dataset of the ECAI Digital Language Atlas of the Pacific Area
DC_Title_Alternative Language Map of the Pacific
DC_Creator_PersonalName S. A. Wurm and Shiro Hattori
DC_Creator_PersonalName_Address Canberra: Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Japan Academy
DC_Subject_Specific Language, Austronesian
DC_Description Composite GIS dataset for all spatial boundaries of the Digital Language Atlas of the Pacific Area maps.
DC_Description_History Creation of the GIS files from the printed maps was done by the GIS group at Academia Sinica, Taiwan in Collaboration with David Blundell and Lawrence Crissman.
DC_Source Language Atlas of the Pacific Area, Wurm and Hattori 1981 and 1983. See also web page: Language Atlas Source.
DC_Language eng
DC_Rights © ECAI Digital Language Atlas of the Pacific Area
DC_Type Dataset
DC_Type_Specific GIS data
DC_Format
DC_Format_Specific ESRI Shapefile
DC_Publisher ECAI - UNESCO, Australian Academy of the Humanities in collaboration with the Japan Academy
DC_Contributor_PersonalName Jeanette Zerneke
DC_Contributor_PersonalName_Address ECAI, I School, UC Berkeley
DC_Date_Created 2004-01-02T00:00:00Z
DC_Coverage_X_min 73.62004852
DC_Coverage_X_max 190.1880213
DC_Coverage_Y_min -28.4634607
DC_Coverage_Y_max 53.55374146
DC_Coverage_T_Early 0
DC_Coverage_T_Late 1981
DC_Coverage_PeriodName Modern
DC_Coverage_PlaceName Asia, Pacific
ECAI_Team Austronesia
ECAI_Theme Language, Pacific
ECAI_UseRestrictions The Australian Academy of the Humanities, which owns the copyright to the available maps, has graciously permitted their reproduction and distribution in this digital format, and we are grateful for their support. Any public use of the maps should acknowledge their source and copyright ownership.
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