A PLACE IN EUROPE: ENHANCING EUROPEAN COLLABORATION IN HISTORICAL GIS

International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 23-39

  Gregory, Ian N ^a   Kunz, Andreas ^a   Bodenhamer, David J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Centres of excellence; Expert networks; Geo databases; Historical gazetteers; Historical GIS; Network of networks; Spatial humanities; Spatio temporal methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906009953     PISSN: 17538548     EISSN: 17551706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/ijhac.2011.0019     Document Type: Article

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6. The Barcelona meeting was funded by the European Science Foundation and was coordinated by Jordi Marti-Henneberg. This paper was drafted at a subsequent meeting in 2008 at Lancaster University funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council grant, “The historical GIS research network,” Ian Gregory, PI. A preparatory meeting was held in Mainz in February 2007, coordinated by Andreas Kunz.
7. This document is based on discussions at the Barcelona meeting chaired by a sub-committee that consisted of: David Bodenhamer, Paul Ell, Andreas Kunz, Melinda Laituri, Robert Schwartz, Francisco Tapiador, and May Yuan. Suggestions to improve on an initial draft document were submitted by J.B. Owens, Francisco Tapiador, Gunnar Thorvaldsen, and Monica Wachowicz. We would like to thank everyone for their contributions.
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