Talk at the Digital Classicist panel at the Classical Association conference, April 2007

1. 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

3. Georeferencing: basic principles ANDROS 24.87 34.87

4. Geographical Information Systems: (vector) GIS e.g. roads, rivers e.g. places e.g. countries, territories etc

5. Feature types Alexandria Digital Library

10. Map 5.6 (NB: insets not to scale)

11. Geoparsing Placename-related entities Named places Relative distance references Feature types

12. Placename-related entities Named places Relative distance references Feature types Text Georeferencing standards Controlled feature vocabulary (e.g. ADL) LGPN? Gazetteers

13. Chronology