Finding a Place in Time: Historians and Geoinformatics

Making connections across space and time !

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Shawn Day Digital Humanities Programme

University College Cork

A Short Pitch‣ Happy Open Data Day! 22 Feb 2014

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‣ Tomorrow - Open Data and Education @ UCC ‣ 6:30 23 January WGB 1.07 - All are Welcome ‣ opendata.ie

A Bit of Background

Interesting Projects‣ Co-ordinate Canadian Network for Economic History ‣ 1891 Canadian Census Digitisation ‣ 1871 Scottish/Canadian Census Linkage ‣ Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR) ‣ Network for Canadian History and the Environment ‣ Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA)

Modelling a Canadian Victorian Community‣ to investigate ways in which demographic data can be

represented spatially within a historical virtual research environment

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‣ The Geography of Vice ‣ Mapping Respectability and Networks of Credit

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‣ North Atlantic Cultural Transfer

Raw Materials‣ Manuscript Census data ‣ Tax Rolls ‣ Court Records ‣ Probate Records ‣ Mortgage Records ‣ Business Directories

Spatial Visualisation as a Data Portal

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

Asylums in Victorian Ontario

Josh Macfadyen and the Cdn Flax Trade

Check out: http:http://www.uoguelph.ca/ruralhistory/resources/GIScaseStudy.html

To What End for the Historian?

Digital Derry

Key Issues for Spatial Humanists (Historians)‣ Ambiguguity - disambiguation of place names ‣ Fluidity - Deliberate - shifting boundaries - ‣ Fuzziness - What level of precision - what level of

granularity? ‣ Time in General - How do time and space intersect? ‣ Relationships - See above

Shifting Boundaries - Politico Economic

Georectification andDavid Rumsey Collection

NeDiMAH Space and Time ICT Methods• GIS • statistical distribution metrics • dynamic webmapping • geo-referencing • network analysis • mobile computing • augmented reality • semantic annotation of places, periods and events

A map visualising the use of digital research across Europe;- An ontology of digital research methods;- A collaborative, interactive online forum for the European communityof practitioners active in this area.

Napoleonic Timeline

Europeana 4D

Neatline

Narrative

Neatline Curated Space and Time

What’s Missing‣ Deep Analytical Tools for a Historical Context ‣ The Spatial - Temporal Connection

Place in Space over Time

Changing Ship Traffic

Geovisualisation

Thank Youshawn.day@ucc.ie @iridium