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Title: Historical GIS Data Model under Geographic and Historical Perspectives

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2018

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DOI: 10.1208/dqxxkx.2018.180025

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Abstract: In recent years, more and more historians and historical geographers have begun to focus on applying GIS technology, and conducted extensive explorations in the research and construction of historical GIS databases and information systems. However, most of these researches are technology-dominated applications. The organization of historical information and historical geographic information mostly focuses on specific topics or applications, lacking data model for the historical GIS basic software. From the dual perspectives of geography and history, this paper is based on the four elements of history: time, place, person, and event (from beginning to the end), integrating geography to emphasize the idea of the "man-earth relationship" and abstracting historical information into historical figures, events, features and scenes, as well as the relationships and experiences/processes. This paper proposed and designed a general historical GIS data model, discussed the composition, attribute, storage scheme of space-temporal objects, the relationship between spatial-temporal objects in the data model. In the application system, the validity of the model was verified by taking the storage and visualization of typical historical figures, events, features and scenes as examples.

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Authors: Di, HU; Guonian, LV; Nan, JIANG; Weican, CAO; Longyu, LIU; Yang, LI

Periodical (Full): Journal of Geo-Information Science

Issue: 6

Volume: 20

Pages: 713-720

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Population Data Science

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