1. 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
2. A Short Pitch
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Happy Open Data Day! 22 Feb 2014
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Tomorrow - Open Data and Education @ UCC
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6:30 23 January WGB 1.07 - All are Welcome
opendata.ie
4. Interesting Projects
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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)
5. Modelling a Canadian Victorian Community
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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
13. Key Issues for Spatial Humanists (Historians)
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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
16. 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 community
of practitioners active in this area.