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13 04 2007 C A2007
Talk at the Digital Classicist panel at the Classical Association conference, April 2007
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- Slide 1: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
New approaches to ancient places:
perceiving landscapes in ancient writings using
geospatial computing
Stuart Dunn
CCH
King’s College London
Classical Association Conference
Birmingham, 13th April 2007
- Slide 2: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
Georeferencing: basic principles
• Informal: based on placenames
• Formal: based on coordinates, or some other mathematical
expression
Benefits
• Resolving ambiguity
• Ease of access to data objects
• Integration of data from heterogeneous sources
• Resolving space and time
- Slide 3: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
Georeferencing: basic principles
34.87
24.87
ANDROS
- Slide 4: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
Geographical Information Systems: (vector) GIS
e.g. roads, rivers
e.g. places
e.g. countries,
territories etc
- Slide 5: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
Feature types
Alexandria Digital Library
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- Slide 7: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
Μήλος
Melos
Milos
Milo
“ML”
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- Slide 10: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
Map 5.6 (NB: insets not to scale)
- Slide 11: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
Geoparsing
Placename-related
entities
Named places
Relative distance
references
Feature types
- Slide 12: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
Placename-related entities
Georeferencing
Named places
standards
Text
Relative distance
references
Feature types
Gazetteers
Controlled feature
vocabulary (e.g. ADL)
LGPN?
- Slide 13: Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre
Chronology