IMC 2018: Sessions

Session 840: Imperial Memory Then and Now, III: Empire, Geography, and Digital Humanities

Tuesday 3 July 2018, 16.30-18.00

Sponsor:	Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung, Universität Wien
Organiser:	Karel Kriz, Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung, Universität Wien
Moderator/Chair:	David Rollason, Department of History, Durham University
Paper 840-a	Representing Historical Landscapes: An Interactive Map-Based Solution (Language: English) Markus Breier, Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung, Universität Wien Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Geography and Settlement Studies
Paper 840-b	From Past to Future: Interactive Geographic (Hi)Storytelling of Historical Landscapes (Language: English) Alexander Pucher, Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung, Universität Wien Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Geography and Settlement Studies
Paper 840-c	OpenAtlas: How to Grow Software for Historians (Language: English) Alexander Watzinger, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Geography and Settlement Studies
Paper 840-d	A New Project on Galician Medieval Heritage, II: GIS as a Work Tool (Language: English) Mariña Bermúdez Beloso, Departamento de Historia, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Computing in Medieval Studies, Geography and Settlement Studies
Abstract	Memory in written sources can be mirrored successfully by means of GIScience and Software Engineering. Therefore, this session will present digital tools deriving from the Clusterproject 'Digitising Patterns of Power (DPP)' at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, especially the DPP OpenAtlas Database and the DPP Mapviewer.