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Tuesday 26 February 2008 16.30
U-2 HIS01 Towards a historical GIS for Europe
Room10.2
Network: Chair: Paul Ell
Organizer: Andreas Kunz Discussant: David Bodenhamer
Ian Gregory : Towards a Historical GIS of Europe: Existing resources and future prospects
Significant investments have been made in historical GIS resources by a large number of countries in Europe and elsewhere. Much of this is concerned with national historical GISs such as the Great Britain Historical GIS (GBHGIS), the Belgian Historical GIS, and the American National Historical GIS (NHGIS). These are typically ... (Show more)
Significant investments have been made in historical GIS resources by a large number of countries in Europe and elsewhere. Much of this is concerned with national historical GISs such as the Great Britain Historical GIS (GBHGIS), the Belgian Historical GIS, and the American National Historical GIS (NHGIS). These are typically large systems comprising census and related data for the nineteenth and twentieth centuries together with the boundaries used to publish them. In addition, there has been significant activity creating resources for specific research projects which could and should be utilised more generally.
To date these resources have been created in a piecemeal manner with no organisation at European level. Frequently little thought has been given to issues of long-term preservation and dissemination to a broad research audience. This paper is in two parts. The first part presents the results of a study that is investigating what historical GIS resources currently exist for Europe. This study has been performed as part of a longer-term strategy to build a common European historical GIS. The second part of the paper develops this theme further by exploring what a common European Historical GIS might be and what type of scholarship it might be expected to assist. (Show less)

Andreas Kunz : A Historical GIS of the German states in the 19th Century: A model for a European historical GIS?
The paper will discuss the possiblities of modelling a future European GIS on the basis of a historical GIS already completed for the 40 states of the German Confederation during the 19th century.

Silke Marburg : Dynastic Networks of Europe in a GIS Context
During the 19th centuries, European dynasties built up and utilized a complex network of familial links. Their impact on the European state system - viewed in connection with a historical GIS of Europe - will be discussed in the paper and presented in form of 2-3 case studies.

Alejandro Simon, Jordi Marti-Henneberg : Railways network and population distribution in the Iberian Peninsula (1850-2000). Towards an European Railways GIS.
We present the relationships between the development of the transport infrastructure and population change or economic growth at the provincial level. New explanations on regional contrasts of development on the long term will arise from this analysis. This proposal of linking databases in a GIS will check a methodology for ... (Show more)
We present the relationships between the development of the transport infrastructure and population change or economic growth at the provincial level. New explanations on regional contrasts of development on the long term will arise from this analysis. This proposal of linking databases in a GIS will check a methodology for the study of the territorial imbalances in the Iberian Peninsula or any other area as Europe.

The context of this research is that the construction of a rail network was a fundamental component of the process of integration by linking the diverse regional societies and economies in Spain and Portugal. Trains increased the speed and decreased the cost of moving people and goods. Trains, by making freight transport more efficient, enlarged markets and thus changed the market strategy of companies. By making passenger transport faster and cheaper they expanded both national and international travel, which contributed to broadening the social and cultural horizons of an ever wider section of the population.

The main goal of this presentation is to show the importance to create new integrated pan-European digital datasets and to analyse these resources to underpin a narrative of the role of transport in long-run European population and economic activity distribution. The new datasets will consist in a unified GIS of Europe’s developing transport infrastructure together with other social, economic and demographic variables. This GIS will contribute to create a new empirical basis for the analysis of long-run European integration. This can only be achieved by spatially integrating datasets of economic, social and demographic variables with transport infrastructure datasets. (Show less)



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