This document summarizes Shawn Day's presentation on how historians can use geoinformatics and digital tools to make connections across space and time in their research. Some of the projects highlighted include mapping census data, court records, and networks of trade. Key issues discussed are disambiguating place names, representing different levels of geographic precision and granularity, and understanding how time and space intersect. The document also provides examples of tools for spatial visualization, georectification, timelines, and curated exhibits that integrate space and time in digital formats. In conclusion, the document notes that deeper analytical tools are still needed to fully represent historical contexts and spatial-temporal connections.

1. Finding a Place in Time:
Historians and Geoinformatics
Making connections across space and time
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Shawn Day
Digital Humanities Programme
University College Cork

2. A Short Pitch
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Happy Open Data Day! 22 Feb 2014
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Tomorrow - Open Data and Education @ UCC
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6:30 23 January WGB 1.07 - All are Welcome
opendata.ie

3. A Bit of Background

4. Interesting Projects
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Co-ordinate Canadian Network for Economic History
1891 Canadian Census Digitisation
1871 Scottish/Canadian Census Linkage
Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR)
Network for Canadian History and the Environment
Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA)

5. Modelling a Canadian Victorian Community
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to investigate ways in which demographic data can be
represented spatially within a historical virtual research
environment
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The Geography of Vice
Mapping Respectability and Networks of Credit
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North Atlantic Cultural Transfer

6. Raw Materials
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Manuscript Census data
Tax Rolls
Court Records
Probate Records
Mortgage Records
Business Directories

7. Spatial Visualisation as a Data Portal

8. Sanborn Fire
Insurance Maps

9. Asylums in Victorian Ontario

10. Josh Macfadyen and the Cdn Flax Trade
Check out: http:http://www.uoguelph.ca/ruralhistory/resources/GIScaseStudy.html

11. To What End for the Historian?

12. Digital Derry

13. Key Issues for Spatial Humanists (Historians)
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Ambiguguity - disambiguation of place names
Fluidity - Deliberate - shifting boundaries Fuzziness - What level of precision - what level of
granularity?
Time in General - How do time and space intersect?
Relationships - See above

14. Shifting Boundaries - Politico Economic

15. Georectification and
David Rumsey Collection

16. NeDiMAH Space and Time ICT Methods
• GIS
• statistical distribution metrics
• dynamic webmapping
• geo-referencing
• network analysis
• mobile computing
• augmented reality
• semantic annotation of places, periods and events
A map visualising the use of digital research across Europe;
- An ontology of digital research methods;
- A collaborative, interactive online forum for the European community
of practitioners active in this area.

17. Napoleonic Timeline

18. Europeana 4D

19. Neatline

20. Narrative

21. Neatline Curated Space and Time

22. What’s Missing
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Deep Analytical Tools for a Historical Context
The Spatial - Temporal Connection

23. Place in Space over Time

24. Changing Ship Traffic

25. Geovisualisation

26. Thank You
shawn.day@ucc.ie @iridium