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Subject: CFP: Working digitally with historical maps (AAG/New York
Public Library, Feb 2012)
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:40:46 +0200
From: Humphrey Southall <[log in to unmask]>
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CALL FOR PAPERS: WORKING DIGITALLY WITH HISTORICAL MAPS
A One-Day Workshop at the New York Public Library, to be held as part of
the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, February
2012
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The last twenty years have seen both extensive work by map librarians to
computerise their collections of historic maps AND the development of
historical GIS as a distinct sub-discipline, reconstructing past
landscapes, both cultural and physical, from historical sources. However,
there has been surprisingly little interaction between map library
digitisation projects and researchers in historical GIS.
This workshop will bring together map librarians digitising their
collections with academic researchers using historical maps as sources for
GIS systems and historical database. We are interested in most novel uses
of historical mapping in a digital environment, and it is easier to say
what
we are not interested in: simply scanning old maps to create digital
images, without geo-referencing or new approaches to metadata; and feature
extraction for historical GIS by manual tracing of lines on old maps.
That said, possible topics include:
== Geo-spatial search interfaces to historical maps collections, enabling
users to find maps based on WHERE they are interested in, rather than via
sheet titles or the name of the publisher.
== Geo-referencing of or feature extraction from historical maps using
either crowd-sourcing or automation. "Feature extraction" includes
creating historical gazetteers by extracting place-names from old maps.
== Applying image processing techniques to the analysis of historical map
images.
== Digitally combining historical maps and plans with modern geospatial
data to reconstruct past landscapes and events.
The workshop will form part of the annual meeting of the Associations of
American Geographers, to be held in New York February 24th-28th 2012, but
it will be held at the New York Public Library, giving us access to better
facilities for presenting internet-based projects. One session will be a
"digital poster session", enabling projects to demonstrate their systems
to individual users.
Getting permission to run such a series of sessions away from the
conference hotels has taken some time, so if you are interested in
presenting please contact us as soon as possible. The deadline for session
submissions to the AAG is September 28th, so we need to hear from you by
Monday 26th at very latest -- and if you leave it until then please
include a final title and an abstract of not more than 250 words. However,
we would rather hear from you NOW, with a possibly vague indication of
what you would be interested in speaking about.
The most likely exact date is Monday, February 27th. For more details of
the overall meeting, see:
http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting
Humphrey Southall (Great Britain Historical GIS, University of Portsmouth)
Matt Knudsen (New York Public Library)
Merrick Lex Berman (China Historical GIS, Harvard University)
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Dr Humphrey Southall
Reader in Geography/Director, GB Historical GIS,
Dept of Geography, University of Portsmouth,
Buckingham Building, Lion Terrace,
Portsmouth PO1 3HE, UK
GBHGIS Office: 023 9284 2500
Direct line: 023 9284 2497
About us: www.port.ac.uk/research/gbhgis
About Britain: www.visionofbritain.org.uk
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