Hi all,
Please join the Research IT Reading Group <https://wikihub.berkeley.edu/display/istrit/Research+IT+Reading+Group> for a presentation by Daniel Viragh (Postdoctoral Fellow at the Magnes Collection for Jewish Art and Life) on the use of geospatial analysis in historical research. Daniel will be presenting The UC Berkeley Historical GIS Project <http://www.historicalgis.berkeley.edu/>, an ongoing work with a team of undergraduate research apprentices to build a historical geo-database of Budapest in 1896. Working from the bottom up, the team digitized data from an 1896 map of the city and a book-length listing of the city's commercial, industrial, and government resources. Daniel will provide a brief overview of the multi-stage process of cleaning and mapping the data. He will also discuss the research questions he addresses by working with geospatial analysis. *When:* Thursday, April 23 from noon - 1pm *Where:* 200C Warren Hall, 2195 Hearst St (see building access instructions below). *Event format:* The reading group is a brown bag lunch (bring your own) with a short ~20 min talk followed by ~40 min group discussion. Please review the following in advance of the 4/23 meeting: ============================== There will be no assigned reading, but please peruse Stanford University's Spatial History Project <http://web.stanford.edu/group/spatialhistory/cgi-bin/site/index.php> for some examples of finished geospatial analysis projects. ============================== Cheers, Camille --- Warren Hall access: For those who do not have keycard access to the building, please take the elevator to the second floor (stairwell door requires keycard). Before noon, let the receptionist know you're joining the Reading Group in 200C and s/he will let you in and show you the way. After noon, look for a sign next to the receptionist window to the right as you exit the elevators. We'll post a note with a phone number that you can call or text, and someone will come out to open the locked doors.
