Monthly Archives: July 2012

New article on GBH GIS/”Vision of Britain” information architecture

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Humphrey Southall

An article has just appeared in the journal Historical Methods about the information architecture underlying the web site A Vision of Britain through Time: Rebuilding the Great Britain Historical GIS, Part 2: A Geo-Spatial Ontology of Administrative Units (Historical Methods, … Continue reading →

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A page we don’t want you to see …

Posted on July 14, 2012 by Humphrey Southall

Touch wood, we have sorted out the problem that caused the new site to crash just a couple of days after it went live, but there will inevitably continue to be occasional “outages” — and Murphy’s Law specifies that they … Continue reading →

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New Expert Search for “places”

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Humphrey Southall

This is the first of a series of posts about new features in the site we launched last week. In the previous version of A Vision of Britain through Time, the Expert Search page just linked to various other pages … Continue reading →

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Vision of Britain 2.5 goes live

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Humphrey Southall

We are now running a new version of the web site A Vision of Britain through Time on a new server. There are a lot of changes, and we will be making a whole series of posts about them, but … Continue reading →

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