Dear all,
The AHRC-supported Hestia project is pleased to announce 'Hestia2:
Exploring spatial networks through ancient sources', a one-day seminar on
spatial network analysis and linked data in Classical studies, archaeology
and cultural heritage.
The seminar will be held at The University of Southampton on 18 July.
Registration for this event is free, but we do recommend registering as
early as possible since the number of available places is limited. More
information, including abstracts and registration, can be found via the
following link: http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/hestia-2013/
We are looking forward to welcoming you to Southampton!
Elton Barker, Stefan Bouzarovski, Leif Isaksen and Tom Brughmans
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Hestia2: Exploring spatial networks through ancient sources
Spatial relationships appear throughout our sources about the past: from
the ancient roads that connect cities, or ancient authors mentioning
political alliances between places, to the stratigraphic contexts
archaeologists deal with in their fieldwork. However, as datasets about
the past become increasingly large, spatial relationships become ever more
difficult to disentangle. Network visualization and analysis allow us to
address such spatial relationships explicitly and directly. This seminar
aims to explore the potential of these innovative techniques for research
in the higher education, public and cultural heritage sector.
The seminar is part of Hestia2, a public engagement project aimed at
introducing a series of conceptual and practical innovations to the
spatial reading and visualisation of texts. Following on from the
AHRC-funded initiative 'Network, Relation, Flow: Imaginations of Space in
Herodotus's Histories' (Hestia: http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/hestia/),
Hestia2 represents a deliberate shift from experimenting with geospatial
analysis of a single text to making Hestia¹s outcomes available to new
audiences and widely applicable to other texts through a seminar series,
online platform, blog and learning materials with the purpose of fostering
knowledge exchange between researchers and non-academics, and generating
public interest and engagement in this field.
Preliminary programme:
11:00 Registration and coffee
11:30 HESTIA-team
Welcome and introduction to HESTIA and
HESTIA2
12:00 Maximilian Schich (The University of Texas at
Dallas)
Topography and Topology: Towards common
ground in archaeological research
12:25 Alex Godden (Hampshire County Council)
Historic Environment Records: New ways of
looking for the past
12:50 John Goodwin (Ordnance Survey)
Ordnance Survey and Linked Data
13:15 Discussion
13:35 Tea and coffee break
13:55 Terhi Nurmikko (University of Southampton)
³To survey the land, he left his city² and
other proverbs: Mapping ancient Mesopotamia from cuneiform inscriptions
14:20 Kate Byrne (University of Edinburgh)
Geoparsing and spatial network analysis in
the GAP projects
14:45 Giorgio Uboldi (Politecnico di Milano)
Knot: an Interface for the Study of Social
Networks in the Humanities
15:10 Discussion
15:35 Tea and coffee break
16:00 Keith May (English Heritage)
Exploring the Use of Semantic Technologies
for Cross-Search of Archaeological Grey Literature and Data
16:25 Paul Cripps (University of Glamorgan)
GeoSemantic Technologies for
Archaeological Resources
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Professor Stefan Bouzarovski | School of Environment and Development |
University of Manchester | http://urban-energy.org
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