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09/13/2018 - 09/14/2018 | Darmstadt

GIS and the City | The Use of GIS in Historical Research

An European-wide setting of interesting and different approaches in the use of GIS for historical questions and research is presented in this workshop. A “GIS Marketplace” will offer new ideas and projects from students and scholars working with GIS & History. A concluding Round-Table discussion will present critical views on benefits and possible pitfalls of GIS in the Humanities.

The general use of digital maps and mapping has increased dramatically over the last years. Parallel to this boom in mapping the diffusion of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) rose with the ubiquitous use of digital data, devices and the internet. Maps and map-based information are not only everyday companions on our cell-phones, weather and traffic maps, they also move more and more into the focus of the Humanities.

GIS seems particularly attractive for historical research with a strong spatial dimension such as Urban History. GIS has been applied not only for visualizing patterns and structures which have already been analysed by ‘traditional’ methods, but also for the process of building and developing hypotheses through the identification of spatial structures which are not so easily discerned in narrative or tabular form.

Information on participating / attending:
Interested guests are welcome – please register in advance: sekr-nng@pg.tu-darmstadt.de

Date:

09/13/2018 - 09/14/2018

Event venue:

Instituts- und Verwaltungsgebäude
S3|20
Rundeturmstraße 10
64283 Darmstadt
Hessen
Germany

Target group:

Journalists, Scientists and scholars

Relevance:

international

Subject areas:

Geosciences, History / archaeology

Types of events:

Conference / symposium / (annual) conference

Entry:

08/24/2018

Sender/author:

Bettina Bastian

Department:

Kommunikation

Event is free:

no

Language of the text:

English

URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event61339


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