Geography
Department of Geography participates in Research Council conference
Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:29:00 GMT
On Monday 19th November, the Department of Geography’s ‘Great Britain Historical GIS Project Team’ attended the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-moot on Digital Transformations, held at the Mermaid Conference Centre in London.
Humphrey Southall represented Old Maps Online and presented a joint display entitled 'Old Maps and the Spatial turn'. Alongside Old Maps Online, this exhibition included the Department of Geography’s Kate Jones, who was introducing the new Bomb Sight website/mobile app which was funded by a Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) grant.
Other presentations on the day included Kimberly Kowal, British Library and a member of our steering group, who presented the BL Georeferencer project on which they collaborated with Klokan Technologies, and Leif Isaksen, University of Southampton, who was presenting the Pelagios project which links together resources about the ancient world via a gazetteer of ancient places and YAMA, a historical map annotator.
The aim of this joint exhibition was to focus attention on projects working to embed historical maps into modern digital scholarship and exploit the significant general interest there is in old maps. For further information about the day, including a downloadable PDF of the programme see the AHRC website.