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Title: Emerging Trend in Historical GIS
Citation Type: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2005
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Abstract: This issue of Historical Geography presents scholarship in the emerging field of historical GIS, the term increasingly used for the application of geographic information systems (GIS) and other geospatial technologies to the study of history.1 Most of the articles in this volume are the authors’ first publications in this vein. Several of the contributors are young scholars whose dissertation research was grounded in the use of GIS as a core method of analysis. They represent the leading edge of what seems certain to become a new generation of historicalgeographical scholarship built with GIS. Other articles are the fruit of one or two decades of research that began with conventional archival and statistical methods but evolved to embrace GIS as a means of managing and analyzing large, complex historical datasets, or long-term GIS-based projects that were started when the application of GIS to history was in its infancy. These articles consider a much wider range of subjects than have previous thematic issues of Historical Geography. While it may soon be possible to produce a collection of GIS-based scholarship that addresses a single historical theme, at this point in its development historical GIS is too diverse for that. Scholars from many branches of historical study are turning to geospatial techniques to explore spatial . . .
Url: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263442447
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Authors: Knowles, Anne
Periodical (Full): Historical Geography
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Volume: 33
Pages: 7-13
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