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Professor Dr Francis Harvey
Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde
Schongauerstr. 9
04328 Leipzig
Germany

f_harvey(at)leibniz-ifl.de
Tel.: +49 341 600 55-111

Professor Dr Francis Harvey

Coordinator of the Research Group "Data and Practices", Professor for Visual Comunication in Geography at the Univerity of Leipzig

Department: Cartography and Visual Communication

Short CV

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At the IfL since January 2015

2004–2014: Associate Professor, Universität of Minnesota, Department of Geography

2011: Erasmus Mundus Visiting Professor, University  of Münster, Institute for Geoinformatics

2007: Senior Lecturer, University Leicester, Department of Geography

2001–2004: Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, Department of Geography

1998–2001: Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, Department of Geography

1996–1998: Lecturer und Researcher, Swiss Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPF-L), Institute of Geomatics

1993–1996: doctoral studies at the University of Washington, Seattle (thesis: "Geographic Information Integration and GIS Overlay")

1989–1993: Employee at  Swiss Federal Statistical Office, Bern, and Office of Planning and Engineering, Grenzach-Whylen

1984–1991: Study of spatial planning in Dortmund

1983–1984: Study of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

Memberships

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International Geographical Union (IGU), Geographical Information Science Commission (since 2009, Chair since 2012)

Editorial Board Member of: International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR) (since 2014) – Polish Journal of Geoinformatics (since 2012) – Geojournal (since 2007) – Europa Regional (since 2008) – Cartographica (since 2004) – International Journal of Geographical Information Science (since 2001) – URISA Journal (since 1998)

Research interests

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Geovisualisation and Cartography, GIScience, GIS, Cataster, Integration, Professional Ethics
Region: Poland

Publications

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Journal articles

Beurskens, Kristine / Meyer, Frank / Harvey, Francis (2022)

Qualitative visualisation : perspectives and potentials for population geography

In: Geographica Helvetica / 77 (2022) 3, Seite 317-322

Moldovan, Aura / Leibert, Tim / Harvey, Francis (2021)

Eine Wander-Karte für die ganze Bevölkerung : Open-Source-Software zur Auswertung der Kommunalstatistik

In: Alternative Kommunal Politik / Resilienz, Seite 22-23

Harvey, Francis (2020)

Werden die kurzen Beine der Kartographie schneller? : Gratwanderung der geovisuellen Kommunikation im Informationszeitalter

In: Jahrbuch / Marburger Geographische Gesellschaft / 2019 (2020), Seite 209-215

Harvey, Francis (2020)

Herbert Bayer's World Geo-Graphic Atlas of 1953 : a modern atlas, then and now

In: The cartographic journal / 57 (2020) 3, Seite 273-283

Ipatow, Natalia / Harvey, Francis (2019)

Bertin's graphic variables and online map makers : an empirical study of maps produced by prosumers and cartographers

In: Cartographica / 54 (2019) 4, Seite 233-244

Harvey, Francis / Losang, Eric (2019)

Bertin's matrix concepts reconsidered : transformations of semantics and semiotics to support geovisualization use

In: Cartography and geographic information science, 46 (2019), 2, Seite 152-162

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2018.1515036

Harvey, Francis (2018)

Die fortbestehende Bedeutung von Herbert Bayers World Geo-Graphic Atlas von 1953

In: Kartographische Nachrichten / 68 (2018) 4, Seite 202-207

Harvey, Francis (2014)

A world without GIS? : Post-GIS futures for the new millenium

In: Geographia Polonica / 87 (2014) 2, Seite 241-250

Harvey, Francis (2013)

The power of mapping : considering discrepancies of Polish cadastral mapping

In: Annals of the Association of American Geographers / 103 (2013) 4, 103 (2013), 4, S. 824 - 843

Ahlqvist, Ola / Harvey, Francis / Ban, Hyowon / Chen, Wei / Fontanella, Shaun / Guo, Meng / Singh, Nisheet (2013)

Making journal articles 'live' : turning academic writing into scientific dialog

In: GeoJournal / 78 (2013) 1, 78 (2013), 1, S. 61 - 68

Harvey, Francis / Kotting, Jennifer (2011)

Teaching mapping for digital natives : new pedagogical ideas for undergraduate cartography education

In: Cartography and geographic information science, 38 (2011), 3, S. 269 - 277

Harvey, Francis / Kozak, Jacek (2011)

Digital earth - i co dalej? : What is beyond digital earth?

In: Roczniki geomatyki, 9 (2011), 1(45), S. 7 - 18

Harvey, Francis (2009)

Of boundary objects and boundaries : local stabilization of the Polish cadastral infrastructure

In: The information society, 25 (2009), 5, S. 315 - 327

Huber, Martin / Mithöfer, Klaus / Schär, Peter / Harvey, Francis / Mukasa, Oscar (2009)

Universal land registry to support independent economic development in Tanzania

In: International journal of spatial data infrastructures research, 4 (2009), S. 52 - 76

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Harvey, Francis (2007)

Commentary: Just another private-public partnership? Possible constraints on scientific information in virtual map browsers

In: Environment and planning / B, planning and design, 34 (2007), S. 761 - 764

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Harvey, Francis / Wardenga, Ute (2006)

Richard Hartshorne's adaptation of Alfred Hettner's system of geography

In: Journal of historical geography / 32 (2006) 2, Seite 422-440

Harvey, Francis / Tulloch, David (2006)

Local-government data sharing : evaluating the foundations of spatial data infrastrudtures

In: International journal of geographical information science, 20 (2006), 7, S. 743 - 768

Harvey, Francis (2006)

Elasticity between the cadastre and land tenure : balancing civil and political society interests in Poland

In: Information technology for development, 12 (2006), 4, S. 291 - 310

Harvey, Francis / Kwan, Mei-Po / Pavlovkaya, Marianna (2005)

Introduction: critical GIS

In: Cartographica / 40 (2005) 4 : Critical GIS / 40 (2005), 4, S. 1 - 4

Harvey, Francis (2003)

Transitions in U.S. cartography and geographic information science

In: Cartography and geographic information science, 30 (2003), 2, S. 95 - 98

DOI 10.1559/152304003100010983

Harvey, Francis (2003)

Developing geographic information infrastructures for local government : the role of trust

In: The canadian geographer, 47 (2003), 1, S. 28 - 36

Harvey, Francis (2001)

U.S. national spatial data infrastructure (NSDI) : the local government perspective

In: GIM International, 15 (2001), 3, S. 36 - 39

Harvey, Francis (2000)

The social construction of geographical Information systems : editorial introduction

In: International journal of geographical information science / Social construction of geographical information / 14 (2000), 8, S. 711 - 713

Harvey, Francis (2000)

Quality means more than standards : development of an interface for better use of metadata

In: GIM International, 46 (2000), 6, S. 77 - 79

Harvey, Francis / Buttenfield, Barbara P. / Lambert, Susan Carson (1999)

Integrating geodata infrastructures from the ground up

In: Photogrammetric engineering & remote sensing, 65 (1999), 11, S. 1287 - 1291

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Harvey, Francis / Kuhn, Werner / Pundt, Hardy / Bishr, Yaser / Riedemann, Catharina (1999)

Semantic interoperability : a central issue for sharing geographic information

In: The annals of regional science / 33 (1999) 2, S. 213 - 232

Harvey, Francis / Chrisman, Nicholas R. (1998)

Boundary objects and the social construction of GIS technology

In: Environment and Planning / A, 30 (1998), S. 1683 - 1694

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Harvey, Francis / Wardenga, Ute (1998)

The Hettner-Hartshorne connection : reconsidering the process of reception and transformation of a geographic concept

In: Finisterra, 33 (1998), 65, Seite 131-140

https://doi.org/10.18055/Finis1731

Chrisman, Nicholas R. / Harvey, Francis (1998)

Extending the classroom : hypermedia-supported learning

In: Journal of geography in higher edudation, 22 (1998), 1, S. 11 - 18

Harvey, Francis (1997)

From geographic holism to geographic Information system

In: The professional geographer / 49 (1997) 1, S. 77 - 85

Harvey, Francis (1997)

National cultural differences in theory and practice : evaluating Hofstede's national cultural framework

In: Information, technology & people, 10 (1997), 2, S. 132 - 146

Harvey, Francis / Vauglin, François (1997)

No fuzzy creep! : A clustering algorithm for controlling arbitrary node movement

In: Proceedings of the Annual Convention and Exposition Technical Papers, April 7 - 10, 1997, Seattle, Washington. Auto-Carto 13, S. 317 - 326

Harvey, Francis / Gross, Ben (1996)

The Durango Declarations Forum

In: The information society, 12 (1996), 1, S. 73 - 82

Book chapters

Harvey, Francis (2022)

Reflexionen über das Politische im partizipativen Kartieren aus der Perspektive einer Philosophie der Object-Orientated Ontology

In: Handbuch kritisches Kartieren. - Bielefeld: transcript, Seite 83-96

Harvey, Francis (2022)

Practical ethics approaches for engaging ethical issues in research geography

In: Research ethics in human geography. - London ; New York: Routledge, Seite 182-199

Harvey, Francis (2021)

Geovisualisierung

In: Handbuch Digitale Geographien : Welt - Wissen - Werkzeuge. - Paderborn: BRILL Schöningh, Seite 174-185

Harvey, Francis (2013)

Practical ethics for professional geographers

In: Practicing geography : careers for enhancing society and the environment. - Boston: Pearson, S. 187 - 197

Harvey, Francis / Raskin, Robert G. (2011)

Spatial cyberinfrastructure : building new pathways for geospatial semantics on existing infrastructures

In: Geospatial semantics and the semantic web : foundations, algorithms, and applications / Naveen Ashish ... ed. - New York ; Heidelberg [u.a.] : Springer, 2011. - (Semantic web and beyond ; [12]). - ISBN 978-1-4419-9445-5, S. 87 - 96

McMaster, Robert Brainerd / Harvey, Francis (2010)

Geographic information science and society

In: Manual of geospatial science and technology / ed. by John D. Bossler. - 2. ed. - Boca Raton, Fla. [u.a.] : CRC Press, 2010, S. 653 - 665

Harvey, Francis (2009)

Maps and governance

In: J - Mc. - Amsterdam [u.a.]: Elsevier, S. 431 - 435

Harvey, Francis (2009)

Hartshorne, Richard (1899-1992)

In: H - I. - Amsterdam [u.a.]: Elsevier, S. 21 -23

Harvey, Francis (2006)

Culture and technology meeting in geographical names : the Baltic Sea area example

In: The 12th International Seminar on the Naming of Seas and East Sea. - Seoul: Seoul National University, Seite 1-7

Harvey, Francis (2005)

The linguistic trading zones of semantic interoperability

In: Re-presenting GIS / ed. by Peter Fisher ... - Chichester [u.a.] : Wiley, 2005. - ISBN 978-0-470-84847-0, S. 43 - 54

Harvey, Francis (2005)

Culture and technology meeting in geographical names

In: The 11th International Seminar on the Naming of Seas. - Washington/D.C.: Cosmos Club, Seite 1-10

Harvey, Francis / Chrisman, Nicholas R. (2004)

The imbrication of geography and technology : the social construction of geographic Information systems

In: Geography and technology. - Dordrecht [u.a.]: Kluwer Academic Publ., S. 65 - 80

Harvey, Francis (2003)

Knowledge and geography's technology : politics, ontologies, representations in the changing ways we know

In: Handbook of cultural geography. - London; Thousand Oaks; New Delhi: SAGE Publications, S. 532 - 543

Harvey, Francis (2002)

Processing spatial data

In: Manual of geospatial science and technology / ed. by John D. Bossler. - London [u.a.] : Taylor & Francis, 2002. - ISBN 0-7484-0924-6, S. 450 - 464

Harvey, Francis (2002)

Visualizing data quality through interactive metadata browsing

In: Virtual reality in geography. - London; New York: Taylor & Francis, S. 332 - 340

Cheesman, Jo / Dodge, Martin / Harvey, Francis / Jacobson, R. Daniel / Kitchin, Rob (2002)

'Other' worlds : augmented, comprehensible, non-material spaces

In: Virtual reality in geography. - London; New York: Taylor & Francis

Adams, A. B. / Harvey, Francis / Crooks, W. T. / Williston, P. (1999)

Habitat physical structure and Arbutus menziesii status in Seattle, Washington

In: The decline of Pacific madrone (Arbutus menziesii Pursh) : current theory and research directions : proceedings of the April 28, 1995 symposium held at the Center for Urban Horticulture, University of Washington, Seattle. - Seattle, Wash., 1999, S. 61 - 77

Harvey, Francis / Vauglin, François / Bel Hadj Ali, Atef (1998)

Geometric matching of areas : comparison measures and association links

In: Proceedings / 8th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling : [Vancouver, July 11 - 15, 1998] (1998), S. 557 - 568

Harvey, Francis (1997)

Improving multi-purpose GIS design : participative design

In: Spatial information theory : a theoretical basis for GIS ; International Conference, COSIT '97, Laurel Highlands, Pennsylvannia, USA, Oktober 15 - 18, 1997 ; proceedings / Stephen C. Hirtle ... (ed.). - Berlin [u.a.] : Springer, 1997. - (Lecture notes in computer science ; 1329). - ISBN 3-540-63623-4, S. 313 - 328

Harvey, Francis / Vauglin, François (1997)

Geometric match processing : applying multiple tolerances

In: Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, Delft, 1996 (1997) , S. 155 - 172

Harvey, Francis (1995)

National and organizational cultures in Geographic Information System (GIS) design : a tale of two counties

In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer-Assisted Cartography, February 27 - 29, 1995, Charlotte, North Carolina, S. 197 - 206

Harvey, Francis (1994)

Defining unmovable nodes/segments as part of vector overlay : the alignment overlay

In: Advances in GIS research. - London [u.a.]: Taylor & Francis, S. 159 - 176

Monographs and edited volumes

Zhou, Chenghu / Harvey, Francis (2017)

Spatial Data Handling in Big Data Era : Select Papers from the 17th IGU Spatial Data Handling Symposium 2016

Singapore, Springer. xii, 237 Seiten

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Harvey, Francis (Herausgeber/-in) (2000)

Social construction of geographical information

(In: International journal of geographical information science ; 14 (2000) 8)

Other publications

Harvey, Francis (2009)

Book review - The Handbook of Geographic Information Science, edited by J. P. Wilson

In: International journal of geographical information science, 23 (2009), 5, S. 683 - 684

Wright, Dawn J. / DiBiase, David / Harvey, Francis / Solem, Michael (2009)

Graduate ethics curricula for future geospatial technology professionals : AGU Fall Meeting 2009, IN34B-01

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Harvey, Francis (2009)

Review: Social capital and urban networks of trust

In: Environment and planning / B : planning and design, 36 (2009), 6, S. 1131 - 1132

DiBiase, David / Goranson, Christopher / Harvey, Francis / Wright, Dawn J. (2009)

The GIS professional ethics project : practical ethics education for GIS pros

In: Proceedings of the 24th International Cartography Conference. Santiago, Chile, 15-21 November, 11 S.

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Harvey, Francis (2007)

Charting the unknown: how computer mapping at Harvard became GIS - by Nicholas R. Chrisman, 2006

In: ACSM Bulletin, February, S. 35 - 36

Tulloch, David / Harvey, Francis (2007)

When data sharing becomes institutionalized : best practices in local government geographic information relationships

In: URISA journal [Elektronische Ressource], 19 (2007), 2, S. 51 - 59

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Harvey, Francis (2006)

Reconfiguring administrative geographies in the United States

In: ACME [Elektronische Ressource] : an international e-journal for critical geographies. - Victoria, British Columbia. ISSN: 1492-9732 / 4 (2006), 1, S. 57 - 79 : Ill., Kt., Lit. S. 75 - 79

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Harvey, Francis (2005)

Aligning or matching : cartographic perspectives on geographic integration

In: AutoCarto : proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer-Assisted Cartography, 13 S.

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Harvey, Francis (2003)

The significance of public safety for GIS professional licensing and certification

In: URISA journal [Elektronische Ressource], 15 (2003), 1, S. 15 - 20

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Harvey, Francis (2001)

Constructing GIS : actor networks of collaboration

In: URISA journal [Elektronische Ressource], 13 (2001), 1, S. 29 - 37

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Harvey, Francis (2000)

[Review:] John Wood, ed. "The virtual ebodied : presence/practice/technology"

In: caa. reviews

http://doi.org/10.3202/caa.reviews.2000.22

Harvey, Francis (1999)

Book review - Geographic Information Systems and Computer Cartography by Christopher Jones

In: Transaction in GIS, 3 (1999), 2, S. 199 - 200

Harvey, Francis (1995)

Ground truth : [Rezension]

In: The professional geographer / 47 (1995) 4, S. 484 - 486