Place in Time: GIS and the Spatial Imagination in Teaching History

Mares, Detlev; Moschek, Wolfgang

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-5009-8_5

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“…They highlight the fact that it resulted in a situation where many historians do not want to use the GIS because they see it primarily as digitization (time-consuming data acquisition) and not the analysis (the use of the data, getting new information as the interpretation and survey “old” data). However, those ready to work with the GIS use it widely: from teaching history (Mares and Moschek, 2013), through history visualization (Travis and Staley, 2013) to knowledge representation, data mining, natural language processing, machine learning, information retrieval, and visual analytics (Wachowicz and Owens, 2013).…”

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The CENDARI infrastructure in GIS-based historical research

Mościcka

2017

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a way of using already existing archival resources in the geographic information system (GIS). Design/methodology/approach The essence of the methodology used was to identify semantic relations of archival documents with geographical space and develop their metadata into spatially related metadata, ready to use in GIS and to join geographical names occurring in these metadata with exact places to which they were related to. Research was based on two digital collections from the Library of Contemporary History in Stuttgart on-line service. These collections were related to the First World War and they included metadata prepared in MAB standard. Findings As the results of the research, two sample metadata sets related to posters and ration coupons were developed. Thesauruses of coordinates of places and regions mentioned in documents metadata in different semantic context were also created. To complete the methodology, the assumptions of the GIS structure and concept of applying metadata in them, have been proposed. Research limitations/implications The research also presents limitations in effective implementation of the proposed solutions, which lie mainly in lack of rules and consequences in recording geographical names in metadata. Originality/value The value of the proposed solution is easy way of using already existing data in GIS and possibilities of gathering, managing, presenting and analyzing archives with one parameter more than in traditional databases – with spatial information. The added value and an effective use of already collected data lies in the strong recommendation of defining and implementation of rules for recording geographical names in archival documents metadata. This will help in a wide use of collected data in any spatial-based solutions as well as in automation of process of joining archives with geographical space, and finally in dissemination of collected resources.

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The CENDARI infrastructure in GIS-based historical research

Mościcka

2017

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“Africa for the Africans?” – Mapmaking, Lagos, and the Colonial Archive

Adelusi-Adeluyi¹

2020

Hist. Afr.

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In early colonial Lagos, struggles over race, place and identity were played out over ownership of land, and ended with the displacement of sections of the indigenous population. “Africa for the Africans” combines texts and maps to narrate the history of 1860s Lagos. This article demonstrates how, with Geographic Information Systems (GIS), European colonial maps can be used to analyze the significance of changing urban spatial relationships in 1860s Lagos. Though much of this analysis employs GIS, it also leans heavily on other tools for making timelines, story maps and vector diagrams. This process of creating digital representations of the past also has pedagogical applications, as these methods can be extended to the classroom for undergraduates learning about African history.

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Spatial Reading: Digital Literary Maps of the Icelandic Outlaw Sagas

Kinniburgh

2018

Digital Medievalist

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Place in Time: GIS and the Spatial Imagination in Teaching History

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

The CENDARI infrastructure in GIS-based historical research

The CENDARI infrastructure in GIS-based historical research

“Africa for the Africans?” – Mapmaking, Lagos, and the Colonial Archive

Spatial Reading: Digital Literary Maps of the Icelandic Outlaw Sagas

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