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This list is not exhaustive but we aim to include all of the major historical GIS websites plus additional relevant websites. Other portals are also available such as those from: the GeoHumanities Special Interest Group of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, the Humanities GIS Zotero Library, and the University of Saskatchewan's HGIS Lab. Resources are classed under: The Great Britain Historical GIS: http://www.gbhgis.org Other online Historical GIS projects: European Communications and Transport Infrasturctures: Performance and potentials, 1825-2000: http://www.atlas-infra.eu. Maps on communications and transport in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe. Digital Atlas of the History of Europe since 1500: http://www.atlas-europa.de. A site that creates a visual and interactive history of the European state system since 1500. Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the American city: http://mappingdecline.lib.uiowa.edu. A site that very effectively maps change in St. Louis over time produced by Colin Gordon who produced a 2008 book on the same topic. Virtual Kyoto: http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/acd/cg/lt/geo/coe. A project creating a 3D representation of the history of Kyoto, Japan. The Occupational Structure of Nineteenth Century Britain: http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/occupations/britain19c. A project that has used GIS extensively as part of its research. Euratlas: http://www.euratlas.com/index.html. A small business based in Switzerland specialising in georeferenced historical vector data. Digital Gazetteer of the Song Dynasty: http://songgis.ucmercedlibrary.info A database that records the 3,828 units that existed at any time in the administrative hierarchy of China's Song dynasty (960-1276 CE); along with attributes such as population, civil and military ranks, and locations of centers of state industry. Imagining London: http://www.imagininglondon.ca. An online project exploring the social, economic and morphological dimensions of the history of London, Ontario. Mapový portál projektu Historického atlasu měst: http://maps.fsv.cvut.cz/praha/vinohrady. A Czech site giving historical maps of Prague. Peasants and Jews: Anti-Semitism and Rural Politics in Northwest Germany, 1871-1933: http://www.peasantsandjews.org. Currently under development, this site uses GIS to help with an analysis of the Mapping the Hearth Tax: http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/hearthtax/projectresearch/index.html. A range of maps of the Hearth Tax of England and Wales from the 1670s and 1680s. Mapping Medieval Chester: http://www.medievalchester.ac.uk. Explores the city of Chester in the north-west of England c1200-1500 Regnum Francorum Online: http://www.francia.ahlfeldt.se. Interactive maps of early medieval Europe 614-840. Covers the Frankish kingdoms of Merovingian and Carolingian Europe. Colonial Williamsburg: http://research.history.org/Digital_History_Center.cfm. Based at the Digital History Center at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, this project has a rich array of content about Williamsbug in the eighteenth century. E-Geopolis: http://www.e-geopolis.eu. This project is recording information on urban areas of 10,000 people or more from all over the world. Covers the period from 1800 to the present. Mapping Du Bois: http://www.mappingdubois.org. A project aimed at recreating the survey W.E.B. Du Bois conducted in 1896 that served as the basis for his 1899 classic, The Philadelphia Negro. Bam 3D: http://www.bam3d.org. A virtual representation of the citadel of Bam in Iran which was destroyed by an earthquake in 2003 A Tale of Two Cities: Community Differentiation in 19th Century America: http://www.socsci.flinders.edu.au/amst/TaleofTwoCities. A project that is comparing two small cities in the US in the second half of the nineteenth century using individual-level data. 5th Street Cemetery Necrogeographical Study: http://www.lewiston.k12.id.us/staff/sbranting/5thcem/5thcem.htm. An extensive school-based project looking at a cemetery in Idaho. Mapping Medieval Townscapes: A digital atlas of the new towns of Edward I: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/specColl/atlas_ahrb_2005/index.cfm. The project that built this atlas is described at: http://www.qub.ac.uk/urban_mapping. These sites both contain information about medieval townscapes in England and Wales. The Gough Map Online: http://www.qub.ac.uk/urban_mapping/gough_map/. The Gough Map is a medieval map of the British Isles. This project has created an online version of it. Victorian Railways: An Introduction to Historical GIS: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/rail/intro_hist_gis.htm. A resource that uses GIS to teach history to undergraduates based on the impact of the growth of the railways on Victorian England and Wales. Vision of Britain through Time: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Information from the Great Britain Historical GIS and elsewhere put online. Staffordshire Past Track: http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk. A large GIS database of images of Staffordshire's past. The International Dunhuang Project: http://idp.bl.uk. A large project based at the British Library concerned with locating artefacts from the Silk Road in time and space. Holocaust Geography: http://geosites.evans.txstate.edu/~holocaust-geography. A site based at the University of Texas concerned with using GIS to explore the history of the Holocaust. The Valley of the Shadow Project: http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu. A large site that uses GIS to structure and represent data about two US counties around the time of the Civil War. The Salem Witchcraft Trials: http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft. A large site that uses GIS to help structure and present data about the village of Salem, Mass. around the time of the famous witchcraft trials. Social Explorer: http://www.socialexplorer.org. A large amount of data from the US National Historical GIS put online through an easy-to-use interface. Atlas of Historical County Boundaries: http://www.newberry.org/ahcbp. A major site recording changes to US county boundaries over time. The site includes downloads of some of its material. Hosted by the Newberry Library, Chicago. Digital Atlas of American Religion: http://www.religionatlas.org. A large amount of data on US religion available through a map-based interface. West Virginia University Laboratory of Geographical Information Science: http://ark.geo.wvu.edu/projects.html. A number of projects particularly concerned with using virtual reality techniques in historical GIS. Historical map servers and other data sources: Historical Collections on Geodata.gov: http://gos2.geodata.gov/wps/portal/gos. Historical geographical data from the US government. The Social Science History Association: http://www.ssha.org Software: TimeMap: http://www.timemap.net. A free GIS data viewer specifically written for people with temporal data. The Centre for Spatially Integrated Social Science: http://www.csiss.org. A useful portal for resources related to applying GIS to the social sciences. The Open GIS Consortium: http://www.opengeospatial.org. A not-for-profit organisation concerned with setting standards for GIS. The Data Documentation Initiative: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/DDI. Concerned with establishing standards for documenting social science datasets. |
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