Hi all, We've been doing a bit of work behind the scenes on Weaving History (http://www.weavinghistory.org/) and suchlike - but I think we really need to find someone to be our 'point person' in this area.
This might include being main contact for the WH project - and associated work. Also it would be great to strengthen the network of people working on this kind of thing - from Simile's timeline suite, to people publishing time/geo tagged data, to visualisation experts, to contacting relevant research institutions, such as The Virginia Center for Digital History. Perhaps in the first instance, we could start a working group and start having regular meetings to discuss relevant developments and to try to keep things ticking! In addition to doing technical work on the Weaving History software, I think it would also be useful to better articulate the longer term vision here. At the end of the day, we are not interested in a single website, so much as the underlying open-source technology to visually represent spatio-temporal information. Some thoughts and questions: * Using bibliographic metadata to represent authors and works? This would be an excellent way to flesh out the intellectual culture of a certain place/period. * Time-based visualisations. E.g. having a time slider, which would show events on the map appearing and disappearing. * Representing regions rather than just points. E.g. how national borders have changed over time. * Plotting journeys. E.g. the movement of a certain person or group of people over time. * Integration with existing projects/services. E.g. Wikipedia. Representing authors and works on Project Gutenberg. Etc. * Use cases? E.g. in education, in research, etc. * Other time-based visual representations on maps. E.g. showing population change over time in a given area with graphs or colours. Animating to show change. I saw the CFP below - which looks very interesting! Jonathan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Humphrey Southall <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:47 PM Subject: CFP special issue: Applied historical GIS and related work To: [email protected] Forwarded from the AHC-UK list -- reply to [email protected] , not to me. ***************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ***************************** [For easier viewing of this CFP go to: http://www.georesearchdata.com/announce/ijagr_hgis_issue_cfp.pdf (pdf) or http://www.georesearchdata.com/announce/cfpijagrhgis.html (html)] SUBMISSION DUE DATE: July 1, 2010 (with prior expressions of interest encouraged) SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE PAST INFORMING THE FUTURE: APPLIED GEOSPATIAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED GEOSPATIAL RESEARCH (IJAGR) Guest Editors: G. Rebecca Dobbs and Mary B. Ruvane [http://www.linkedin.com/in/grdobbs and http://www.ils.unc.edu/phd/students.html#Ruvane] Geographic information systems and other geospatial technologies have emerged as important tools by which geographers, historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, information scientists, and other social and physical scientists answer questions about the past. Within this trend, the variety of approaches is both large and multiplying, defying attempts to characterize historical GIS neatly and succinctly. This special issue of IJAGR, scheduled for publication in late 2011, is intended to expand the available body of historical GIS literature by exploring applied research on problems or questions about the past, incorporating not only GISs as conventionally understood, but also other kinds of geospatial technologies and spatial-temporal information sciences. In keeping with the spirit of IJAGR's mission statement (see below), we interpret not only "geospatial technologies" but also "historical" broadly, seeking papers that address/explore issues from any period of the past and from any part of the earth, with varied approaches to human spatial and social existence and to earth environments and human-environment interactions. The key requirement is that the research described be "applied" in the sense of contributing knowledge or understanding with the potential to inform practical decision-making activities (again, broadly interpreted) in today's world. Because geospatial phenomena of the past are not generally thought of as having practical applications, manuscripts should address this aspect of the research explicitly. By way of example, work on the past might be considered to have practical applications in the present day if it introduces new understandings of present landscapes for planners and preservationists but also for the general public alters understandings of key events, landscape features, or places makes visible the previously hidden roles or experiences of marginalized groups produces new pedagogical possibilities enhances spatially oriented access to sources from the past and many other possibilities. RECOMMENDED TOPICS: Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following: * microscale histories that affect local knowledge and decision-making * geographical analysis of key historical moments such as battles, epidemics, or natural disasters * new analyses of past global or regional trends that contribute to understanding of present trends at those scales * lab and classroom approaches incorporating geospatial technology for historical analysis * public history adaptations of geospatial technologies such as in museum settings * explorations of the lives of marginalized groups in the past * analysis of past land or resource uses * uses of geospatial technologies to document indigenous peoples' traditional territories, special sites, or pathways, or other uses relating past conditions to current legal claims * development of tools for persistent access to historical spatial data * online collaborations involving historical spatial data, including Web 2.0 initiatives * development of library/archives catalog systems that use map interfaces for accessing collections geographically IMPORTANT DATES: * Manuscript submissions due: July 1, 2010 * Reviews due: November 2010 * Notification of conditional acceptance: December 2010 * Final revised manuscripts due: January 2011 * Final manuscripts ready for IJAGR: February 2011 * Publication: October 2011 SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special theme issue on THE PAST INFORMING THE FUTURE: APPLIED GEOSPATIAL SOLUTIONS on or before July 1, 2010. 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The IJAGR is interested in research highlighting various GIS&T application domains that span the social and physical sciences. The limiting factor is less topical, but more whether such studies incorporate geospatial technologies (geospatial statistics, global positioning systems, geographic information systems, remote sensing, etc.) to answer practical, utilitarian, and applied geographic questions. This journal is an official publication of the Information Resources Management Association, www.igi-global.com/ijagr Editor-in-Chief: Donald Patrick Albert Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) PUBLISHER: The International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference) and “Medical Information Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. 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