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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 15:50:20 +0100
From: "Merry, Mark L" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: History Data Service - New Guide to Using GIS in Historical Resea
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**Apologies for cross-posting**
New Guide to Using GIS in Historical Research
A Place in History: A Guide to Using GIS in Historical Research
The History Data Service is pleased to announce the web publication of 'A
Place in History', a new guide to using GIS in historical research. The
guide is available at http://hds.essex.ac.uk/g2gp/gis/index.asp and will
also be published by Oxbow Books next year. For more information, please
contact Oxbow Books, email: [log in to unmask], +44 (0) 1865) 241249, fax:
++44 (0) 1865) 794449, URL: http://www.oxbowbooks.com/
This guide is intended for historians who want to use Geographical
Information Systems (GIS). It describes how to create GIS databases and how
to use GIS to perform historical research. Its aims are to:
* Define GIS and outline how it can be used in historical research
* Evaluate the way GIS models the world
* Describe how to get data into a GIS
* Demonstrate the basic operations that GIS offers to explore a database
* Review how time is handled in GIS
* Explain how GIS can be used for simple mapping and more advanced forms of
visualisation
* Discuss quantitative data analysis within GIS
* Illustrate the use of GIS for qualitative analysis
* Summarise documenting and preserving GIS datasets
The book provides a broad sweep of GIS knowledge relevant to historians
without assuming prior knowledge. It includes case studies from a variety of
historical projects that have used GIS and an extensive reading list of GIS
texts relevant to historians.
It has been commissioned by the History Data Service as part of the Arts and
Humanities Data Service publication series Guides to Good Practice in the
Creation and Use of Digital Resources. The series aims to provide guidance
about applying recognised good practice and standards to the creation and
use of digital resources in the arts and humanities.
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Mark Merry
Information and Acquisitions Officer
History Data Service
UK Data Archive, University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ
Phone +44 (0)1206 872326
Fax +44 (0)1206 872003
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URL: http://hds.essex.ac.uk
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