Finding a Place in Time: Historians and Geoinformatics
Making connections across space and time !
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Shawn Day Digital Humanities Programme
University College Cork
A Short Pitch‣ Happy Open Data Day! 22 Feb 2014
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‣ Tomorrow - Open Data and Education @ UCC ‣ 6:30 23 January WGB 1.07 - All are Welcome ‣ opendata.ie
A Bit of Background
Interesting Projects‣ Co-ordinate Canadian Network for Economic History ‣ 1891 Canadian Census Digitisation ‣ 1871 Scottish/Canadian Census Linkage ‣ Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR) ‣ Network for Canadian History and the Environment ‣ Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA)
Modelling a Canadian Victorian Community‣ to investigate ways in which demographic data can be
represented spatially within a historical virtual research environment
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‣ The Geography of Vice ‣ Mapping Respectability and Networks of Credit
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‣ North Atlantic Cultural Transfer
Raw Materials‣ Manuscript Census data ‣ Tax Rolls ‣ Court Records ‣ Probate Records ‣ Mortgage Records ‣ Business Directories
Spatial Visualisation as a Data Portal
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Asylums in Victorian Ontario
Josh Macfadyen and the Cdn Flax Trade
Check out: http:http://www.uoguelph.ca/ruralhistory/resources/GIScaseStudy.html
To What End for the Historian?
Digital Derry
Key Issues for Spatial Humanists (Historians)‣ Ambiguguity - disambiguation of place names ‣ Fluidity - Deliberate - shifting boundaries - ‣ Fuzziness - What level of precision - what level of
granularity? ‣ Time in General - How do time and space intersect? ‣ Relationships - See above
Shifting Boundaries - Politico Economic
Georectification andDavid Rumsey Collection
NeDiMAH Space and Time ICT Methods• GIS • statistical distribution metrics • dynamic webmapping • geo-referencing • network analysis • mobile computing • augmented reality • semantic annotation of places, periods and events
A map visualising the use of digital research across Europe;- An ontology of digital research methods;- A collaborative, interactive online forum for the European communityof practitioners active in this area.
Napoleonic Timeline
Europeana 4D
Neatline
Narrative
Neatline Curated Space and Time
What’s Missing‣ Deep Analytical Tools for a Historical Context ‣ The Spatial - Temporal Connection
Place in Space over Time
Changing Ship Traffic
Geovisualisation
Thank [email protected] @iridium