Atlas Explorer

About

Atlas Explorer is an interactive web catalog of electronic atlases that enables you to search for atlases, explore their structure, and conduct your own comparative and trend analyses. The aim of the Atlas Explorer project is to identify, analyze, classify, and archive electronic atlases in order to preserve, systematize, and expand knowledge about atlases and their diverse metaconcepts

Atlas Explorer classifies electronic atlases by bibliographic, content, and media-cartographic attributes organised into five blocks: general information, interface, information architecture (IA) and navigation, content representation, and functionality. Definitions of all attributes are available in the table header tooltips

The analysis guide, glossary and other useful information can be found in the Supplementary Materials section. Atlas Explorer employs an express analysis approach that usually takes 2–3 hours. While this approach enables the identification of the synthetic attributes, it provides lower analytical depth and reliability compared to the standard model

Atlas Criteria

Defined theme and territory

Includes multiple thematic sections (excluding the metaconcept of organizational mechanism)

Includes purpose-built maps or (geo)spatial visualizations

Content is delivered either within the atlas shell or on purpose-built pages (not PDF pages)

Operational and completed product (not a beta version)

Not a catalog geoportal, collection of dashboards, interactive map, (web)GIS or applied CIS

Author

Stanislav Krakovskyi

PhD in Geography

Institute of Geography
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Navigation

To switch between tables, use the buttons on the left-hand side
On the right are the buttons for horizontal table scrolling, show/hide selected columns, and full-screen mode
To quickly jump between the Media-Cartographic Attributes (Table 3), use the navigation panel at the bottom, next to the ‘Clear Filters’ button
Use the ‘Page Size’ dropdown in the pagination menu at the bottom to set the number of atlases displayed
When switching between tables, your position in each table and any active filters are preserved

Table Interaction

All atlas titles contain hyperlinks
To learn more about an attribute, hover your cursor over the attribute's label
Column widths can be adjusted
Clicking any table cell copies its content

Sorting and Filtering

To select and compare atlases, use the Select Rows menu. In the column that appears on the left, select the atlases you want to work with and click Apply Selection. Attribute filtering will apply only to this selection until you click Reset Selection
To select the attributes (columns) to be displayed in the table, use the Show/Hide Columns menu. You can move and resize the menu window
Columns can be sorted (ascending/descending)
Columns can be filtered using: keywords, list selection, list multiselection or expressions for numeric columns
The filtering system is synchronized across all tables; all filters for each table remain active when switching to another table
Table filters can be reset using the ‘Clear Filters’ button located at the bottom, next to the pagination menu

Atlas Explorer

About

Enjoy exploring the atlases!

Atlas Criteria

Conceptual Definition

Operational Definition

Author

Stanislav Krakovskyi

Atlas Catalog

Desktop experience recommended

About

Enjoy exploring the atlases!

Atlas Criteria

Author

Stanislav Krakovskyi

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Supplementary Materials