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

Proceedings of the 35th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication Pub Date : 2017-08-11 DOI:10.1145/3121113.3121232

Shaun Johansen, Binod Sundararajan, Paul F. Armstrong

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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."

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从档案数据构建历史GIS平台:历史GIS信息可视化动态数据库的创建

我们描述了我们为在新斯科舍省创建一个宗谱数据的历史GIS平台所做的努力。为了建立一个可演示的原型，我们使用了两个社区的历史数据，哈利法克斯的“老北端”和皮克图县的“达勒姆村”。这些社区的初始时间设定在1881年，在城市/农村轴上，按职业、种族、宗教和家庭组成，其特征有很大差异。我们编制的数据包括(a)住户地理座标，(b) 1881年人口普查资料，以及(c)摄影图像。这个全面的平台将利用全省各地各种社区历史和家谱群体的档案记录和产出。我们已经进行了几个子项目来开发用于连接来自不同研究小组的任意数据的编程，并将报告如何使用这种方法“将内容和用户体验设计实践与本地环境/本地社区联系起来”。

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