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Session 1. Historical Digital Gazetteers
Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2018, 16h00 (UK time)
Session coordinator: Jeffrey Becker (Binghamton University), Ruth Mostern (University of Pittsburgh), Valeria Vitale (University of London)
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/IHSrICNuKh8
Slides:
This seminar will briefly introduce the Digital Approaches to Cultural Heritage module, and the Sunoikisis Digital Classics initiative. The discussion will then move to the first seminar's topic: historical digital gazetteers. We will start explaining what digital gazetteers are, what is their role in the study and representation of the ancient world, and why are they so valuable in Linked Open Data scenarios. During the seminar we will examine, in particular, the Pleiades Gazetteer of the Ancient World, and the World Heritage Gazetteer project, looking at the specific challenges of modelling information about places of the past. We will conclude discussing the idea of urban gazetteers, and the potential benefit they could bring to the cultural heritage sector.
- Welcome and Introduction to SunoikisisDC
- Introduction to Digital Approaches to Cultural Heritage
- Historical Digital Gazetteers: what they are and how do they work
- The World Historical Gazetteer Project
- The Pleiades Gazetteer of the Ancient World
- From settlements to buildings: Urban Gazetteers
- Berman, M. L., Åhlfeldt, J., & Wick, M. (2012). Historical Gazetteer System Integration: CHGIS, Regnum Francorum, and GeoNames. 2016-12-10]. Available: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/53a1/9e3be077ca259e78947f6ebdba7bf7715dd2.pdf
- Southall, H., Mostern, R., & Berman, M. L. (2011). On historical gazetteers. International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 5(2), 127-145. (available https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/pdfplus/10.3366/ijhac.2011.0028)
- Berti, Monica (2015). "Sunoikisis DC - An International Consortium of Digital Classics Programmes." Digital Classicist London seminar (July 10, 2015). Available (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpBR0bb8gxk
- Goodchild, M. F., & Hill, L. L. (2008). Introduction to digital gazetteer research. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 22(10), 1039-1044. (Available: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13658810701850497)
- Pleiades Guidelines https://pleiades.stoa.org/help/editorial-guidelines
- World-Historical Gazetteer agenda http://whgazetteer.org/
- Map of Early Modern London (MoEML) documentation https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/praxis.htm
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Choose a geographic area that is relevant to your research, and explore it in Pleiades. Sign up to Pleiades writing an email to pleiades.admin[at]nyu.edu requesting a username and password. Be sure to include your real full name, a valid email address, any institutional affiliation (don't worry if you don't have one!), and a brief statement as to your reasons for wanting to join. Enrich the gazetteer adding at leat 5 new entries of settlements, geographic features or relevant buildings following the Pleiades' guidelines. If possible, include location and variant names. If there are delays in the sign-up process, simply gather the information in a spreadsheet.
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Choose a major historical building and do some research about it. Gather at least 15 digital resources in any online repository that are related to your building of choice. They could be artefacts that used to decorate the building, representations of the building in paintings or engravings, mentions of it in historical tourist guides, architectural blue prints, modern and historical photographs etc...
Discuss the specific challenges of an historical gazetteer.