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"Frederik Pedersen" <[log in to unmask]>

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Thu, 19 Dec 1996 12:51:53 +0000

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I would be grateful if you can bring this job to the attention of 
anyone you think may be interested in working for the Department of 
History at University of Aberdeen

The Department of History at the University of Aberdeen wishes to employ 
a research assistant for a period of 9 months to prepare databases for
analysis, and to write a tutorial aimed at students at levels one and
two which explains how to use GIS in historical enquiry. The research
assistant will work under the supervision of the Department's
Computing co-ordinator, but will also co-operate with a number of
members of staff who have used CAL in the past. The research assistant
will also be expected to help those colleagues who do not yet use GIS
in their teaching to develop datasets and maps for classroom use
should they wish to have such assistance. It is expected that the
identification and modification of datasets will take seven to eight
months and that the remainder of the term of the research assistant's
contract will be used to compose a tutorial for self study. 


Further Details:
The aims of the project are:

the design and implementation of a user-friendly Geographical
Information System (GIS) aimed at historians for the use in teaching
at all levels, particularly levels one and two. 

The ability to make sense of facts and figures and to relate
these to time and space is a vital element in the historian's craft.
Recent work by members of the Department of History has shown the 
importance of linking statistical material to geographical factors 
and on this background the Department is keen to introduce students 
to the benefits of mapping technology throughout their period at the 
Department of History and Economic History. However, despite the
obvious advantages in using computers for this kind of analysis, the
skills of using GIS are rarely taught at UK universities. It is our
belief that there are two obstacles that need to be overcome before
the latest advances in database mapping can become a general tool for
our students the students must have regular access to visually
stimulating presentations which relate statistical information to
geographical and historical factors in a meaningful way and they must
be encouraged to perform comparable analyses on datasets that have not
already been used for classroom presentations. The  generally 
counter-intuitive interfaces offered by traditional database and
statistical software must be explained and made comprehensible to
students at all levels of study through the provision of a self-paced
training program. We believe that by storing a large number of
databases and spreadsheets and providing these with an intuitive and
visually appealing interface and easy-to-understand tutorials written
specifically for historians, tutors will be able to set statistical
task to students and ask them to present their results in terms of
geographical and temporal distribution by the help of GIS at an early
phase in their studies. Tasks based on such data sets can include
investigations as diverse as plotting the flow of commodities, capital
exports and labour flows between regions, countries or continents to
demonstrate trends in economic history, and  more unusual
investigations such as the interrelations between the treatment of
minorities and the impact of Italian and Erasmian Humanism or the
plotting of royal itineraries to show the development of medieval
royal authority. 

The Department wishes to provide facilities for accessing large 
datasets of a wide variety of types and to provide all
level one and two students and selective level three and four students
with a good background in the manipulation of such datasets within the
next academic year. In future years the Department expects GIS to be
an integral part of the teaching of all students of History at the
University of Aberdeen. We propose to make this possible by employing
one post-graduate research assistant (historian) for a period of nine 
months and another research assistant (Computer scientist) to 
serve concurrently with the historian for the last three months of 
the project. 

It will be the responsibility of this historian: 

1. to identify a suitable number of historical databases covering all 
of the period (and area) within the Department's remit to allow 
meaningful statistical assignments to be assigned to classes as early 
as levels one and two. 

2. to help make these databases available in a format that will allow 
first and second year history students to manipulate them using the 
computers in the university's computing centre. 

3. to compose and desktop publish a tutorial for self-study to be aimed at 
students in levels one and two explaining how to use the GIS software. 

This project is designed to be flexible enough to be of benefit to 
all levels of the Department's teaching, but one of its major 
advantages is that students at levels one and two are encouraged to 
familiarise themselves with the techniques of IT almost from day one 
of their studies at Aberdeen.  



Further particulars and informal enquiries to: 




Frederik Pedersen
Department of History
King's College 
Meston Walk
Old Aberdeen 
Scotland, UK
AB24 3FX

Phone: (+1224) 272 464


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