Historical Spatial-Data Infrastructures for Archaeology: Towards a Spatiotemporal Big-Data Approach to Studying the Postindustrial City

Trepal, Dan; Lafreniere, Don; Gilliland, Jason A.

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“…The Imag(in)ing London Historical GIS project [22] represents an early implementation of the HSDI concept [18] and this project (hereafter referred to as the London HSDI) forms the basis of the present longitudinal investigation of industrial hazards. The London HSDI consists of two environmental "stages": the Built Environment (BE) stage and the Social Environment (SE) stage.…”

Section: New Infrastructures For Studying Industrial Activity Across mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The foundation of our improvements in investigating industrial landscapes lies in the creation and use of a robust and flexible digital infrastructure that we refer to as a Historical Spatial Data Infrastructure (HSDI). We introduce the HSDI concept and describe technical details relating to its construction elsewhere [18]; in brief, it is a digital infrastructure that links the research benefits of Historical GIS with the flexibility, scalability, and robustness of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) that underpin critical big data projects such as the Minnesota Population Center's Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) [38][39][40]. The Imag(in)ing London Historical GIS project [22] represents an early implementation of the HSDI concept [18] and this project (hereafter referred to as the London HSDI) forms the basis of the present longitudinal investigation of industrial hazards.…”

Section: New Infrastructures For Studying Industrial Activity Across mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We introduce the HSDI concept and describe technical details relating to its construction elsewhere [18]; in brief, it is a digital infrastructure that links the research benefits of Historical GIS with the flexibility, scalability, and robustness of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) that underpin critical big data projects such as the Minnesota Population Center's Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) [38][39][40]. The Imag(in)ing London Historical GIS project [22] represents an early implementation of the HSDI concept [18] and this project (hereafter referred to as the London HSDI) forms the basis of the present longitudinal investigation of industrial hazards. The London HSDI consists of two environmental "stages": the Built Environment (BE) stage and the Social Environment (SE) stage.…”

Section: New Infrastructures For Studying Industrial Activity Across mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The IPPS used three different measures for the denominator (total manufacturing activity): total product shipment value, value added, and number of employees [41] (pp. [18][19]. For our study, we selected the risk factor data using the employment denominator.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Archaeologists studying modern cities have long relied on maps, including fire insurance plans, to locate sites and identify changes in the physical landscape over time [1,16]. The application of digital, spatial technologies has further enhanced the value of historical maps for such activities [17][18][19]. Archaeologists, geographers, and other disciplines with a historical focus have increasingly also used fire insurance plans as the basis for digital reconstructions of past environments [20][21][22][23].…”

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confidence: 99%

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We combine the Historical Spatial Data Infrastructure (HSDI) concept developed within spatial history with elements of archaeological predictive modeling to demonstrate a novel GIS-based landscape model for identifying the persistence of historically-generated industrial hazards in postindustrial cities. This historical big data approach draws on over a century of both historical and modern spatial big data to project the presence of specific persistent historical hazards across a city. This research improves on previous attempts to understand the origins and persistence of historical pollution hazards, and our final model augments traditional archaeological approaches to site prospection and analysis. This study also demonstrates how models based on the historical record, such as the HSDI, complement existing approaches to identifying postindustrial sites that require remediation. Our approach links the work of archaeologists more closely to other researchers and to municipal decision makers, permitting closer cooperation between those involved in archaeology, heritage, urban redevelopment, and environmental sustainability activities in postindustrial cities.

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Between 1833 and 1877 the Tasman Peninsula (Van Diemens Land/Tasmania) operated as a restricted penal zone for British convicts transported to Australia. The main penal settlement was situated at Port Arthur, with a series of substations spread across an area of 660 km2 (250 mi2). At its mid-1840s peak over 3,000 male convicts, military, and free resided on the peninsula. The vast majority of the men were engaged in diverse industrial activities, ranging from manufacturing to resource extraction, as well as the associated tasks of transport and communications. Archaeological and historical evidence demonstrates that this multiscalar penological industrial landscape was coordinated by an interlinked system of audio and visual signaling. Activity within settlements and the immediate economic hinterland was synchronized by bells, while more distant or topographically difficult sites incorporated visual signaling with time balls and semaphores. A GIS analysis of soundscapes and viewsheds shows that the latter afforded coordination of labor across the hinterland, as well as rapid complex messaging between different stations and beyond, while also spreading a net of time compliance and surveillance across the penal peninsula.

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Historical Spatial-Data Infrastructures for Archaeology: Towards a Spatiotemporal Big-Data Approach to Studying the Postindustrial City

Cited by 22 publications

References 87 publications

Understanding Cumulative Hazards in a Rustbelt City: Integrating GIS, Archaeology, and Spatial History

Understanding Cumulative Hazards in a Rustbelt City: Integrating GIS, Archaeology, and Spatial History

Carceral Time at Port Arthur and the Tasman Peninsula: An Archaeological View of the Mechanisms of Convict Time Management in a Nineteenth Century Penal Landscape

An Historical Archaeology of Labor in Convict Australia: A Framework for Engagement

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