Challenges and Opportunities for Digital History

Gregory, Ian

doi:10.3389/fdigh.2014.00001

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“…Additional digital neighbouring "disciplines" also exist, such as the highly independent, do-it-yourself and mainly self-funded punk archaeology, as well as digital geoarchaeology, digital history, digital literary history, digital musicology, or digital philology (e.g. Ghilardi, Desruelles, 2009;Graham et al, 2016;Gregory, 2014;Murrieta-Flores et al, 2017;Nichols, Altschul, 2012;Pugin, 2015;Schofield, 2017;Siart et al, 2017).…”

Section: Digital Archaeologymentioning

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Reflections on the Use of Social Networking Sites as an Interactive Tool for Data Dissemination in Digital Archaeology

Hagmann¹

2018

IANSA

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This paper presents a case study concerning the use of the social networking sites (SNS) Twitter, Sketchfab, and ResearchGate as an integrated tool for digital science communication in archaeology. Although this combination seems to be characterised by means of a distinct heterogeneity among the different SNS, the interlocking of the various sites will be highlighted and its importance outlined. Therefore, the basic workflow for combining a microblogging service with a 3D content sharing site and a scientific social network shall be delineated within the framework of science communication. Disseminating data digitally can be handled in different ways, both actively and passively. An active manner can be the triggering of a social media war: in general, war might be seen here as permanent adversity between at least two parties. This adversity can arise for various reasons and take different courses on different intensity levels (Kekes 2010). Expanding the meaning of war to include digital conflicts within the realm of information and computer science, this permanent adversity can be easily combined with social media, specifically the social web, as an integral part of Web 2.0 (e.g.

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Section: Digital Archaeologymentioning

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Reflections on the Use of Social Networking Sites as an Interactive Tool for Data Dissemination in Digital Archaeology

Hagmann¹

2018

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“…Prolonged irrigation can, however, cause salinization that can detrimentally affect agriculture and thereby limit its longterm sustainability (Gregory, 2012;Shahid et al, 2013). Despite reliable proxies for irrigation and evaporation, there is no evidence of salt crusting from the micromorphology.…”

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Geoarchaeological evidence for the construction, irrigation, cultivation, and resilience of 15^th--18^th century AD terraced landscape at Engaruka, Tanzania

Lang

Stump

2017

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Agricultural landscapes are human-manipulated landscapes, most obviously in areas modified by terracing and/or irrigation. Examples from temperate, arid, and desert environments worldwide have attracted the attention of many disciplines, from archaeologists, palaeoecologists, and geomorphologists researching landscape histories to economists, agronomists, ecologists, and development planners studying sustainable resource management. This article combines these interdisciplinary interests by exploring the role archaeology can play in assessing sustainability. Our case study is Engaruka, Tanzania, archaeologically famous as the largest abandoned irrigated and terraced landscape in East Africa. The site has been cited as an example of economic and/or ecological collapse, and it has long been assumed to have been irrigated out of necessity because agriculture was presumed to be nearly impossible without irrigation in what is now a semiarid environment. Geoarchaeological research refutes this assumption, however, demonstrating that parts of the site flooded with sufficient regularity to allow the construction of more than 1000 ha of alluvial sediment traps, in places greater than 2 m deep. Soil micromorphology and geochemistry also record changes in irrigation, with some fields inundated to create paddylike soils. Geoarchaeological techniques can be applied to both extant and abandoned agricultural systems, thereby contributing to an understanding of their history, function, and sustainability.

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“…Indeed the complexity of the managing of uncertainty due to historical records explains the absence of a standardised language to qualify uncertainty in geo-historical data and also regarding the semantic organisation of such geo-historical information. Noted at the beginning of the 2000's [12], this problem remains unresolved [6]. In the Virtual Leonium project, sources are systematically linked to 3D objects [1], but there are still no examples of further standardised encoding of uncertainty due to archival records.…”

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“…In the United States, temporal 3D-GIS, such as the reconstitution of Washington DC in 1815 [4] or the Sidney Timelap [5] has received an increased attention among researchers. Current developments of 4D GIS illustrated above are coupled with increasing attempts to renew historical visualization by the use of a wider variety of historical records and the introduction of temporal devices in order to navigate through the data [6].…”

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Exploration of the changing structure of cities: Challenges for temporal city models

Périnaud

Gesquière

2015

2015 Digital Heritage

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-The ALARIC project (Incremental Urban Change Research Project) is dedicated to the production of geo-historical information concerning two formerly industrial cities of the Lyon-Saint-Etienne region (19 th and 20 th century). The exploration of the incremental nature of urban change implies identifying when certain historical processes took place, such as the shift from one-off to systematic construction and changes in urban planning strategies. Specifically, the case study investigates the emergence of local urban projects to compare the transformation processes of the urban fabric and to specify the pace of urban change. Historical records will be accessed through a virtual mapping environment based on the temporal reconstitution of cities in two dimensions, and sometimes for special cases in three dimensions. This paper presents methodological principles to reconstruct former cities in order to inquire urban change and requirements for effective sharing of hypotheses on the various states of the past urban landscape and associated transformation processes.

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Challenges and Opportunities for Digital History

Cited by 28 publications

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Reflections on the Use of Social Networking Sites as an Interactive Tool for Data Dissemination in Digital Archaeology

Reflections on the Use of Social Networking Sites as an Interactive Tool for Data Dissemination in Digital Archaeology

Geoarchaeological evidence for the construction, irrigation, cultivation, and resilience of 15^th--18^th century AD terraced landscape at Engaruka, Tanzania

Exploration of the changing structure of cities: Challenges for temporal city models

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Reflections on the Use of Social Networking Sites as an Interactive Tool for Data Dissemination in Digital Archaeology

Reflections on the Use of Social Networking Sites as an Interactive Tool for Data Dissemination in Digital Archaeology

Geoarchaeological evidence for the construction, irrigation, cultivation, and resilience of 15th--18th century AD terraced landscape at Engaruka, Tanzania

Exploration of the changing structure of cities: Challenges for temporal city models

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Geoarchaeological evidence for the construction, irrigation, cultivation, and resilience of 15^th--18^th century AD terraced landscape at Engaruka, Tanzania