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From: Bogumi³ Szady [[log in to unmask]]
CFP (call for papers): European Social Science History Conference, Vienna
2014, session proposal:
Title: Digital Atlases of Historical Sources in Eastern and Central Europe -
methods and practices.
Within the last decades the trends in computer technology - introducing
spatiotemporal databases and GIS tools into humanities - have created a new
and interesting perspective for the edition of historical sources.
This concerns the written materials in the same degree as the cartographic
or iconographic sources. Geographical space became a suitable and easily
applicable framework for the humanistic research ("spatial humanities"),
which enables integration of the large data collections and which conditions
the future syntheses dealing with the historical and social phenomena.
Informatics platforms prepared with the use of geographical information
systems toolkits and spatiotemporal databases present the results of
historical research. More and more often they can serve as a method of
presenting and publishing of the historical sources in a digital form
("digital humanities"). This way of proceeding allows to create and build
the common platforms for the digitized materials (scans, photos), a critical
edition of texts and data collections based on these sources. The next steps
are the geospatial and multi-layer analyses grounded on the information
derived from this data and visualization of scientific output as graphs,
charts, series of thematic maps or time-line presentations of the
investigated factors. Linking digital humanities with the so called "spatial
turn"
provokes a discussion around the new methods of gathering, ordering and
editing of historical sources.
Examples of themes:
1.Between digital and spatial humanities - practices and methods.
2.Historical GIS and Spatiotemporal Databases.
3.Electronic editions of tax registers.
4.Population history digital collections.
5.Confessional and denominational registers (for example canonical
visitations).
6.Geohistorical dictionaries, gazetteers and lists of places.
7.Historical narratives and non-spatial texts as GIS data source.
8.Old maps and plans in digital applications.
Please submit abstracts of 250 words or less to panel organizers (until May
8):
Bogumi³ Szady, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
([log in to unmask]), Marcus Naser, Würzburg University
([log in to unmask]) Michael Schmitt, Würzburg University
([log in to unmask]).
Abstracts should be in English, as this is the conference language.
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