Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System (GBHGIS)
Course: Working Digitally with Historical Maps and Geographical Information
Course schedule
Monday 18th June
09.00 Registration
09.30 Introduction to course and leaders
10.00 Delegate introductions: About you and your project
11.00 Coffee break
11.15 Working with Geospatial Data at the UK National Archives (Linda Stewart, Data Specialist, The National Archives)
12.15 Lunch
13.15 Planning your project (Humphrey Southall/Paula Aucott)
14.15 Discussion: defining goals
14.45 Tea Break
15.00 Maps as sources (Peter Collier)
16.00 Selecting sources for your project (Breakout groups)
17.00 Close
Tuesday 19th June
09.00 Basic concepts in geographical information (Humphrey Southall)
10.00 Discussion: what kind of system
10.30 Coffee break
10.45 Getting started with Quantum GIS (Alex von Lünen/Paula Aucott)
12.15 Lunch
13.15 Working with vector data (Alex von Lünen/Paula Aucott)
14.45 Tea Break
15.00 Case study: Tithe Mapping (Alastair Pearson)
15.45 Working with raster data (Alex von Lünen/Paula Aucott)
17.00 Close
Wednesday 20th June
09.00 Case study: Applying raster techniques to historical land use maps (Brian Baily)
10.00 Budgeting and sustainability (Humphrey Southall/Paula Aucott)
10.30 Coffee break
10.45 Introduction to the OSGeo Stack (Alex von Lünen)
11.45 Discussion: choosing a stack
12.15 Lunch
13.15 Accessing spatial databases (Alex von Lünen/Paula Aucott)
14.45 Tea Break
15.00 Digital mapping in the British Library (Kim Kowal, Curator of Digital Mapping, British Library)
15.45 Working with online data sources (Alex von Lünen/Paula Aucott)
17.00 Close
Thursday 21st June
09.00 Data Standards and the Ordnance Survey (Glen Hart, Head of Research, Ordnance Survey)
10.00 Copyright issues (Humphrey Southall)
10.30 Coffee break
10.45 Transformation/reprojection of data (Alex von Lünen/Paula Aucott)
12.15 Lunch
13.15 Map scanning (Humphrey Southall/John Westwood/Paula Aucott)
14.45 Tea Break
15.00 Visit to Admiralty Map Library, Portsmouth Dockyard
Evening Working Digitally dinner
Friday 22nd June
09.00 Vectorisation of raster data (Alex von Lünen/Paula Aucott)
10.30 Coffee break
10.45 Map design (Alex von Lünen/Paula Aucott)
12.15 Lunch
13.15 Progressing your project (Breakout groups)
14.45 Tea Break
15.00 Questions and answers/Presentation of attendance certificates
15.45 Close
This is the intended programme for the course, however it is subject to revision should it deemed necessary.