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Martyn Jessop, King’s College London.Email: [email protected]
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The Project
• Project Description• Budget £5000.• Pilot project – establish approaches,
techniques and novel solutions.• One of a group of spatial data projects
within the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH).
• Did not involve GIS specialists.
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Location of Kastoria
Turkey
Bulgaria
Romania
Greece
Albania
Italy
FormerYugoslavia
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Dividing Time
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Sources and ‘Products’
Legacy
Database
Paper Maps
Geographical
Information
System
GIS for use by academics at museum
Web SiteMaps
Archive
Documents
Old Photos
Existing Multimedia Presentation
Digital Resource for General Use
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Presentation of Maps on the Web
• Static image files.
• Image Library software.
• Limited Interactivity (Image Maps, Java).
• Animated sequences of maps.
• Medium Interactivity (Geotools)
• Fully Interactive GIS
• What’s used in the project?
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The aims of the GIS
• Preserve the database and open it to a wider audience via the web.
• Produce maps for the website.• Desktop GIS for academics (MapInfo)
- move from map drawing to analysis.
- visualisation tool.
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Data Flow Through the Project
On Screen Digitisation
Mapinfo
Map Drawing
Static Maps
Image Maps
Animations
(Javascript)
Location Data
(Paper Maps)
Desktop A4 Size Scanner
(produces image files)
Attribute
Data(legacy
database)
Microsoft Excel
(Pre-processing and further
data generation)
Future Simple Web-based GIS??
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Spatial and Attribute Data
120 Villages.
50 Data items per village.
6000 items.
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Additional Geographic Data
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Maps from GIS
• Summaries of data – population etc. Example
• Location of events – exchanges, violence, etc. Example
• Data access. Example
• Exploratory.
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Exploratory Maps
Animation Example
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What happened 1900-1905?
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Experiences of the Project
Views and aims changed substantially during project
• There are novel solutions to cartographic problems utilising the Web.
• Even simple maps are (very) useful.
• Levels of expertise/experience required
• Cost need not be high.
• Expect to digitize.
• Use ‘multi-application’ approach
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Experiences of the project (II)
• Must keep data well organised.
• Tyranny of the Web site – keep to project objectives.
• Keep notes about processes and progress.• It’s about people not phenomena.
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GIS in the Humanities
• Designed by scientists for scientists - philosophy is fundamentally different.
• Can GIS link human agency to change?• Problems with generalisation and uncertainty.• Is it worth it?• What’s next - web based toolkit (open souce)
- wider role for CCH?