Classics and Ancient History

tool: ArcExplorer

Purpose:

ArcExplorer is a custom mapping tool that can be used in a web browser. ArcExplorer allows you to perform a range of basic GIS functions such as display, query and retrieve data.

Features:

• Display and query a variety of standard data sources including ESRI shapefiles, ArcInfo coverages Images, ArcIMS services
• Pan and zoom through multiple layers and identify, locate, and query geographic and attribute data.
• Symbolize data based on attributes contained in the data layers to create thematic maps.
• Perform basic spatial analysis tasks on the geographic data
• Freely distributable data

A&H use case 1 description:

ArcExplorer was used in the Montréal l'avenir du passé (MAP) project to create a historical GIS research infrastructure for mapping the city of Montréal.

Publisher:

Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)

Creator:

Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)

Software/programming languages used:

ArcExplorer

Data capture:

Use of existing digital data

Specifications:

HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

JPEG

Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)

Portable Network Graphics (PNG)

Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)

Bitmap (BMP)

Java

Communication and collaboration:

Graphical interaction (asynchronous)

Suite:

ESRI Explorer

Discipline:

Archaeology

Classics and Ancient History

History

Data analysis:

Spatial data analysis

Data publishing and dissemination:

Web browser scripting

Tags:

GIS

geography

Geospatial computing

Geospatial technology

Strategy and project management:

Documentation

Practice-led research:

2d illustration

3d modelling - vector

Alternate tool(s):

ArcGIS Explorer, worldKit, GeoCommons

Data structuring and enhancement:

2d modelling - raster

2d modelling - vector

3d modelling - interactive

3d modelling - vector

Geo-referencing and projection

Licence:

Freeware

Platform:

All major operating systems

lifecycleStage:

structuring

analysis

publishing

By natalie.hutchinson at Mon, 29/03/2010 - 10:41

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tool: ERDAS Imagine

Purpose:

ERDAS Imagine is a suite of geospatial authoring software. The suite contains a raster graphics editor and remote sensing application that performs advanced remote sensing analysis and spatial modelling to create new information. ERDAS IMAGINE can also visualize results in 2D, 3D, movies, and on cartographic quality map compositions.

Features:

• Image Analysis, Remote Sensing & GIS
• Parallel Batch Processing
• Spatial Modeling
• High Performance Mosaicking Engine in IMAGINE Advantage
• Expanded Change Detection Tools (with Zonal Change Detection)
• ERDAS ER Mapper Algorithms
• Converts over 190 Image Formats to all Major File Formats, including GeoTIFF, NITF, CADRG, JPEG, JPEG2000, ECW and MrSID
• Implements Comprehensive OGC Web Processing Service (WPS), Web Coverage Service (WCS), Web Mapping Service (WMS) and Catalog Services for the Web (CS-W)

A&H use case 1 description:

The North Sea Palaeolandscapes project used ERDAS Imagine to analyse 3D seismic datasets acquired on the United Kingdom continental shelf and explore Late Quaternary and Holocene geology over the area of the Southern North Sea.

Publisher:

Earth Resource Data Analysis System (ERDAS)

Creator:

Earth Resource Data Analysis System (ERDAS)

Software/programming languages used:

ERDAS Imagine

Data capture:

Remote sensing

GPS and total station surveys

Specifications:

Javascript

HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

JPEG

Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)

Java

Ajax frameworks

J2EE

Erdas Macro Language (EML)

Communication and collaboration:

Resource sharing

Video-based interaction (asynchronous)

Suite:

ERDAS Imagine

Discipline:

Archaeology

Classics and Ancient History

Data analysis:

Data publishing and dissemination:

Desktop publishing and pre-press

Tags:

GIS

Remote sensing

Geospatial technology

Raster image

multispectral images

Strategy and project management:

Documentation

Human factors analysis

Practice-led research:

2d illustration

3d modelling - vector

Alternate tool(s):

SPRING, Virtual Terrain Project (VTP),

Data structuring and enhancement:

2d modelling - raster

2d modelling - vector

Animation

3d modelling - interactive

3d modelling - vector

Geo-referencing and projection

Licence:

commercial

Platform:

All major operating systems

lifecycleStage:

By natalie.hutchinson at Mon, 29/03/2010 - 10:22

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project: Concordia

Grant Holder:

The overall aim of the project was to make it easier for readers to move between publications on the Web, instead of walking from one library shelf to another. Bringing information together in this way helps researchers to recognise a new range of relationships and interactions. [read more]

project: Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity (2004)

Grant Holder: Professor Charlotte Roueché

This publication is the online second edition of a printed book, which first appeared in 1989, but was out of print: it incorporates new material found since 1989. The resource presents 250 inscribed texts from the 3rd-6th century, found at the ancient site of Aphrodisias in Caria (south-west Turkey): it includes extensive explanatory material and discussions, with detailed indices of people. The existence of the book makes it possible to compare the two ways of presenting the material. [read more]

event: New worlds out of old texts: interrogating new techniques for the spatial analysis of ancient narratives

By Valentina Asciutti at Thu, 18/03/2010 - 11:14

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event: THATCamp London

THATCamp is a user-generated “unconference” on digital humanities developed by the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University. This year, for the first time, a THATCamp will occur at the same time and same place as the DH conference — the world’s premere conference on the Digital Humanities, and we expect that having both together will spark exciting new ideas!

You need to apply to take part in the THATCamp. Find out more about it at http://thatcamplondon.org/.

Tags:

digital humanities

Unconference

Discipline:

Archaeology

Classics and Ancient History

Dance Studies

Drama and Theatre Studies

English Language and Literature

Modern Languages

History

Law

Librarianship, Information & Museum Studies

Theology, Divinity and Religious Studies

Architecture: History, Theory & Practice

Community Arts (including Art and Health)

Cultural Policy, Arts management and the creative industries

Visual Arts

Design

By John Bradley at Wed, 17/03/2010 - 15:21

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tool: GeoNames

Purpose:

A global geographical database that may be used to identify, tag and disambiguate all references to location. The database contains over 8 million entries, each of which possesses a geographic name (in various languages), latitude, longitude, elevation, population, administrative subdivision and postal codes and information on unique features.

Features:

• Built upon web service, enabling transparent look-up and use of content through third-party tools and sites
• Browse by geographic location, country name, size of geographic region and other categories.
• Full text search support
• Extensible, enabling users to expand existing information or contribute new content
• Support for the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84) co-ordinate system

A&H use case 1 description:

GeoNames is used in the Embedding GeoCrossWalk project to geotag locations found in proceedings of the Stormont Assembly.

Publisher:

GeoNames.org

Creator:

Marc Wick

Data publishing and dissemination:

Resource sharing

Specifications:

eXtensible Markup Language (XML)

World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS1984)

Communication and collaboration:

Textual interaction (asynchronous)

Data analysis:

Data mining

Record linkages

Searching and querying

lifecycleStage:

Discipline:

Classics and Ancient History

History

Data capture:

Text recognition

Use of existing digital data

Data structuring and enhancement:

Geo-referencing and projection

Tags:

geocoding

neogeography

digital maps

Strategy and project management:

Documentation

Alternate tool(s):

Unlock

Practice-led research:

Texture design and mapping

Platform:

All major operating systems

Software/programming languages used:

GeoNames

Licence:

Creative Commons

By natalie.hutchinson at Fri, 12/03/2010 - 10:57

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tool: MMax2

Purpose:

MMax2 is a text annotation tool for creating and visualizing annotations. It has advanced and customizable methods for information and relation visualization.

Features:

• Determination of the word class / part of speech (POS) for words in a text
• Determination of word senses, including the disambiguation of homonymous and polysemous words
• Detection of anaphoric expressions and identification of their antecedents

A&H use case 1 description:

The MMax2 annotation tool has been used by the Embedded GeoCrossWalk project to perform annotation of the Stormont Papers resource.

Publisher:

EML Research gGmbH

Creator:

Christoph Muller

Software/programming languages used:

MMAX2

Data capture:

Text recognition

Specifications:

eXtensible Markup Language (XML)