1 Martyn Jessop, King’s College London.

2 The Project Project Description Budget £5000. Pilot project – establish approaches, techniques and novel solutions. One of a group of spatial data projects within the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH). Did not involve GIS specialists.

3 Location of Kastoria

4 Dividing Time

5 Sources and ‘Products’ Legacy Database Paper Maps Geographical Information System GIS for use by academics at museum Web Site Maps Archive Documents Old Photos Existing Multimedia Presentation Digital Resource for General Use

6 Presentation of Maps on the Web Static image files. Image Library software. Limited Interactivity (Image Maps, Java). Animated sequences of maps. Medium Interactivity (Geotools) Fully Interactive GIS What’s used in the project?

7 The aims of the GIS Preserve the database and open it to a wider audience via the web. Produce maps for the website. Desktop GIS for academics (MapInfo) - move from map drawing to analysis. - visualisation tool.

8 Data Flow Through the Project On Screen Digitisation Mapinfo Map Drawing Static Maps Image Maps Animations (Javascript) Location Data (Paper Maps) Desktop A4 Size Scanner (produces image files) Attribute Data (legacy database) Microsoft Excel (Pre- processing and further data generation) Future Simple Web-based GIS??

9 Spatial and Attribute Data 120 Villages. 50 Data items per village items.

10 Additional Geographic Data

11 Maps from GIS Summaries of data – population etc. Example Example Location of events – exchanges, violence, etc. Example Example Data access. Example Example Exploratory.

12 Exploratory Maps Animation Example

13 What happened ?

14 Experiences of the Project Views and aims changed substantially during project There are novel solutions to cartographic problems utilising the Web. Even simple maps are (very) useful. Levels of expertise/experience required Cost need not be high. Expect to digitize. Use ‘multi-application’ approach

15 Experiences of the project (II) Must keep data well organised. Tyranny of the Web site – keep to project objectives. Keep notes about processes and progress. It’s about people not phenomena.

16 GIS in the Humanities Designed by scientists for scientists - philosophy is fundamentally different. Can GIS link human agency to change? Problems with generalisation and uncertainty. Is it worth it? What’s next - web based toolkit (open souce) - wider role for CCH?