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Category Archives: Events
Historical GIS in Japan
The GBHGIS team have just returned from a productive trip to Japan. We were very pleased to be invited to visit Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto to give a intensive short course on Historical GIS to the postgraduate students there. The … Continue reading
Summer publicity
Following on from the successful launch event held for GB1900 at the beginning of July we spent mid-July attending the 17th International Conference for Historical Geographers held in the old library at the University of Warsaw in Poland. During the … Continue reading
GB1900 historical gazetteer launch
Monday saw the launch of the final version of the GB1900 historical gazetteer data-set at a special event organised at the Institute of Historical Research in London. The event was also a celebration of the work of all the volunteers … Continue reading
Posted in Datasets, Events, Research
Tagged crowd-sourcing, GB1900, historical gazetteers, historical mapping
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2013 SSHA Conference
This weekend saw project director Humphrey Southall take part in the annual Social Science History Association Conference. This year the meeting was held in Chicago with an “Organising Powers” theme. Humphrey presented a paper on “Early Life Conditions and Physical … Continue reading
Using Vision of Britain — and Wikipedia — in education
This is being written at the Eduwiki conference in Cardiff, where I gave a presentation on the first year course I run, which uses both A Vision of Britain through Time and Wikipedia as teaching resources. Each student is assigned … Continue reading
Integrating Onomastic Data seminar
Last week we participated in the sixteenth meeting of the Baltic Division of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) who held a seminar on Integration of onomastic data into geo-spatial infrastructure. The paper Humphrey Southall and … Continue reading
Announcing Pelagios 3
“Pelagios 3” is a new two-year project funded by the Mellon Foundation and led by Leif Isaksen (Southampton University), Elton Barker (Open University) and Rainer Simon (Austrian Institute of Technology). It will annotate, link and index place references in digitized … Continue reading
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Tagged gazetteers, linked data, New York, PastPlace, Pelagios 3, Pleiades
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ESSH conference April 2012
The European Social Science History Conference, organised by the International Institute of Social History, took take place in Glasgow on 11-14th April 2012. It focused on using social science methods to explain historical phenomena. Members of the project team … Continue reading
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Tagged conference, Global historical GIS, historical mapping, land use, Land Utilisation Survey, presentation
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New website launched: Old Maps Online
Today sees the UK launch of a new website Old Maps Online. Created in collaboration between the Great Britain Historical GIS Project based at the University of Portsmouth and Klokan Technologies GmbH based in Switzerland and funded by JISC as … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Website
Tagged Great Britain Historical GIS, historical mapping, JISC, Klokan Technologies GbmH, Old Maps Online
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Workshop: Working Digitally with Historical Maps (New York Public Library, Feb 25th)
This one day workshop includes the launch of our new Old Maps Online web site. It forms part of the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, but is being held in the South Court Auditorium of the Schwarzman … Continue reading