Historical GIS : technologies, methodologies and scholarship

Ian N. Gregory, Paul S. Ell

Historical GIS is an emerging field that uses Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to research the geographies of the past. Ian Gregory and Paul Ell present the first study comprehensively to define this emerging field, exploring all aspects of using GIS in historical research. A GIS is a form of database in which every item of data is linked to a spatial location. This technology offers unparalleled opportunities to add insight and rejuvenate historical research through the ability to identify and use the geographical characteristics of data. Historical GIS introduces the basic concepts and tools underpinning GIS technology, describing and critically assessing the visualisation, analytical and e-science methodologies that it enables and examining key scholarship where GIS has been used to enhance research debates. The result is a clear agenda charting how GIS will develop as one of the most important approaches to scholarship in historical geography.

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Historical GIS is an emerging field that uses Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to research the geographies of the past. Ian Gregory and Paul Ell present the first study comprehensively to define this emerging field, exploring all aspects of using GIS in historical research. A GIS is a form of database in which every item of data is linked to a spatial location. This technology offers unparalleled opportunities to add insight and rejuvenate historical research through the ability to identify and use the geographical characteristics of data. Historical GIS introduces the basic concepts and tools underpinning GIS technology, describing and critically assessing the visualisation, analytical and e-science methodologies that it enables and examining key scholarship where GIS has been used to enhance research debates. The result is a clear agenda charting how GIS will develop as one of the most important approaches to scholarship in historical geography.

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[目次]

  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • 1. GIS and its role in historical research: an introduction
  • 2. GIS: a framework for representing the Earth's surface
  • 3. Building historical GIS databases
  • 4. Basic approaches to handling data in a historical GIS
  • 5. Using GIS to visualise historical data
  • 6. Time in historical GIS databases
  • 7. Geographic information retrieval: historical geographic information on the internet and in digital libraries
  • 8. GIS and quantitative spatial analysis
  • 9. From techniques to knowledge: historical GIS in practice
  • References.

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[目次]

  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • 1. GIS and its role in historical research: an introduction
  • 2. GIS: a framework for representing the Earth's surface
  • 3. Building historical GIS databases
  • 4. Basic approaches to handling data in a historical GIS
  • 5. Using GIS to visualise historical data
  • 6. Time in historical GIS databases
  • 7. Geographic information retrieval: historical geographic information on the internet and in digital libraries
  • 8. GIS and quantitative spatial analysis
  • 9. From techniques to knowledge: historical GIS in practice
  • References.

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書名 Historical GIS : technologies, methodologies and scholarship
著作者等 Ell, Paul S.
Gregory, Ian
シリーズ名 Cambridge studies in historical geography
出版元 Cambridge University Press
刊行年月 2007
ページ数 x, 227 p.
大きさ 26 cm
ISBN 9780521671705
9780521855631
NCID BA8489780X
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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