Spatializing History
Event details
| Date | 18.09.2013 |
| Hour | 14:30 › 15:30 |
| Speaker | André Bruggmann |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
As the amount of unstructured text documents available in online digital libraries has been steadily rising in the past years, exciting new research avenues open up for the sciences and humanities to harvest these vast digital text archives. Many challenges still remain to efficiently uncover spatio-temporal and semantic relationships buried in non-numeric databases, and to visualize the extracted meanings appropriately to an information seeker. The aim of my PhD research titled Spatializing History is to first develop a sound methodological framework to extract spatial, temporal, and semantic information from an online Swiss history archive, second, to uncover latent relationships, and finally, to make these relationships visually accessible to an end user through an interactive visual interface, based on cartographic design principles and visual analytics approaches. With this interdisciplinary contribution at the interface of geography, geographic information science, history, and the digital humanities, we hope to provide novel strategies for spatio-temporal knowledge discovery in a data rich information society.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- DHLab
Contact
- Mélanie Fournier