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Session 4. Geographic Information System: querying geo data

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Date: Thursday, October 25, 2018, 16h00 (UK time)

Session coordinators: Leonard Bruckner, Adina Puscasu (Cluj-Napoca), Chris Donaldson (Lancaster)

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/JcD7RoyRkOU

Slides:

Outline

  • Introduction to GIS for Cultural Heritage: QGIS and ArcGIS
  • Querying GIS data: the Lake District case study
  • GIS tutorial: UNESCO heritage sites

Required readings

  • Weiss, C. 2010. Determining Function of Pompeian Sidewalk Features through GIS Analysis, in: Frischer, B., J. Webb Crawford and D. Koller (eds.) Making History Interactive. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA). Proceedings of the 37th International Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States of America, March 22-26 2009. Archaeopress, Oxford, pp. 363-372. Available: http://proceedings.caaconference.org/files/2009/43_Weiss_CAA2009.pdf
  • Donaldson, C., Gregory, I. N., & Taylor, J. E. (2017). Locating the beautiful, picturesque, sublime and majestic: spatially analysing the application of aesthetic terminology in descriptions of the English Lake District. Journal of Historical Geography, 56, 43-60. Available: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305748817300178

Further reading

  • Kenneth E. Foote, Shannon Crum, and Natalia Vorotyntseva, "Cartographic Communication", The Geographer's Craft, 1995 (with subsequent revisions). Read the following sections:
    • The Value of Maps
    • Cartography as Communication
    • What Is a Good Map?
    • Basic Elements of Map Composition
    • The Cartographer's Palette: The Semiotics of Cartography
  • Stuart Dunn, 'Space as an Artefact: a perspective on "Neogeography" from the Digital Humanities', in Gabriel Bodard et al. (eds.), 'Digital research and the study of Classical Antiquity', Routledge 2010.
  • David J. Bodenhamer, John Corrigan, and Trevor M. Harris (eds.), 'The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship', Indiana University Press 2010.
  • Poluschny, A.G. 2010. Over the Hills and Far Away? Cost Surface Based Models of Prehistoric Settlement Hinterlands in: Frischer, B., J. Webb Crawford and D. Koller (eds.) Making History Interactive. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA). Proceedings of the 37th International Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States of America, March 22-26 2009. Archaeopress, Oxford, pp. 313-319. Available: http://proceedings.caaconference.org/files/2009/38_Posluschny_CAA2009.pdf
  • P. Murrieta-Flores, C. Donaldson and I. Gregory, “GIS and Literary History: Advancing Digital Humanities research through the Spatial Analysis of historical travel writing and topographical literature,” Digital Humanities Quarterly, 11 (2017). Available: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/11/1/000283/000283.html

Exercise

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