Building an historical GIS platform from archival data: The creation of dynamic databases for visualization of historical GIS information

Shaun Johansen, Binod Sundararajan, Paul F. Armstrong

Résultat de recherche: Conference contribution

Résumé

We describe our efforts to create an Historical GIS platform for genealogical data in Nova Scotia. To build a demonstrable prototype, we use historical data from two communities, the "Old North End" of Halifax, and "Durham Village" in Pictou County. With the initial time set at 1881, these communities are considerably different in character on the urban/rural axis, by occupation, ethnicity, religion, and household composition. The data we have been compiling include (a) household-level geographic coordinates, (b) 1881 directory and census data, and (c) photographic images. The full-scale platform will utilize the archival records and output of the various community-based historical and genealogical groups around the province. We have conducted several sub-projects to develop the programming for joining arbitrary data from disparate research groups, and will report on how this approach can be used "to connect content and UX design practices to local contexts/local communities."

Langue d'origineEnglish
Titre de la publication principaleSIGDOC 2017 - 35th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication
ÉditeursElizabeth Keller
Maison d'éditionAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
ISBN (électronique)9781450351607
DOI
Statut de publicationPublished - août 11 2017
Événement35th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2017 - Halifax, Canada
Durée: août 11 2017août 13 2017

Séries de publication

PrénomSIGDOC 2017 - 35th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication

Conference

Conference35th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2017
Pays/TerritoireCanada
VilleHalifax
Période8/11/178/13/17

Note bibliographique

Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Association for Computing Machinery.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Software
  • Information Systems

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