THE ASSIMILATION AND USE OF GIS BY HISTORIANS: A SOCIOTECHNICAL INTERACTION NETWORKS (STIN) ANALYSIS

International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 159-188

  Suri, Venkata Ratnadeep ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

digital humanities; Historical GIS; social informatics; socio technical interaction networks (STIN); spatial history; spatial humanities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84984974278     PISSN: 17538548     EISSN: 17551706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/ijhac.2011.0030     Document Type: Article

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