Workshop unter der Leitung von Christian Lotz, Dariusz Gierczak und Barbara Fichtl
14.-15. September 2017, Marburg, Herder-Institut
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provide a wide variety of opportunities for historical research. Gathering, exploring and visualizing large amounts of data, GIS open new perspectives on the spatial dimensions of history. At the same time, debates about the methodological frameworks and challenges of using GIS in the humanities are at high tide. Driven by the impulses of Critical Geography and Critical Cartography, the debates focus on the reliability and comparability of sources that were produced decades or even centuries ago, as well as the concepts and categories which are applied to phenomena of different time periods and regional contexts.
14 September 2017
13:00-13:30 Welcome (Coffee and refreshments)
13:30-13:40 Christian Lotz (Herder Institute): Introduction
13:40-14:00 Torsten Veit (University of Greifswald): Mapping networks. Bayrische Stuckhandwerker im Ostseeraum des 18. Jahrhunderts
14:00-14:20 Agnieszka Zagańczyk-Neufeld (Ruhr University Bochum): Mapping religion – eine digitale Karte abweichender Religiosität im Russischen Reich (ca. 1700-1930)
14:20-14:40 Arnoud de Waaijer (Technical University Delft): Mapping the spatial impact of the oil industry in the countries around the North Sea – exploring the properties of digital cartography as a research tool
14:40-15:40 Discussion
15:40-16:00 Break
16:00-16:20 Tino Mager (Technical University Delft): The ArchiMediaL project – Deep learning approaches to linking historical architecture, its representations and sites
16:20-16:40 Andreas Dix (University of Bamberg) & Andreas Kunz (Mainz): FNZ-GIS - A historical information system of the states of Central Europe in the early modern period
16:40-17:00 Marc Friede & Dariusz Gierczak (Herder Institute): Ein Digitalisierungskonzept zur Erschließung von Senkrechtluftbildern in Deutschland – Metadaten und Recherchewerkzeuge
17:00-18:00 Discussion
19:00 Dinner
15 September 2017
09:00-09:30 Welcome (Coffee and refreshments)
09:30-09:50 Piet Gerrits (Koç University İstanbul): Mapping and geo-spatially analysing economic and population geography of mid-nineteenth century Bursa
09:50-10:10 Ahmet Baş (Technical University Istanbul): A use of GIS in exploring socio-spatial conjunctions or distinctiveness among Ottoman cities from the 1450s to the 1700s
10:10-10:30 Marion Starzacher (University of Linz): Town tales – Visualization of the development of the city of Graz, based upon historical maps
10:30-11:30 Discussion
11:30-11:50 Break
11:50-12:10 Arno Bosse (University of Oxford): Early modern places and letters online
12:10-12:30 Andreas Buchholz (National Collection of Aerial Photography, Edinburgh): Geoinformation Products Derived From Historical Aerial Photographs
12:30-13:30 Discussion
The workshop is part of the project on "Conceptualizing digital access to aerial photography" and is generously funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
