Links
Links
Projects
ISTHMUS
EU FP7 Information and Communication Technologies project proposal
Europeana
An online collection of over four million digital items
Life in the Suburbs
This project seeks to investigate the character and development of London’s eastern suburb by examining the life of the inhabitants of the extra-mural parishes of St Botolph, Aldgate and Holy Trinity Minories from c.1550-c.1700.
http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk
Great Britain Historical GIS Project
http://www.port.ac.uk/research/gbhgis/abouttheproject
GeoNames
Contains over 8 million geographical names.
http://www.geonames.org/about.html
Mapping Medieval Chester
This AHRC-funded research project brings together a team including literary specialists, historical geographers and historians to explore space, place and identity in medieval Chester.
http://www.medievalchester.ac.uk/index.html
Mapping the Lakes
The ‘Mapping the Lakes' project tests whether Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology can be used to further the understanding of the literature of place and space.
http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/mappingthelakes
Lviv Interactive
A web-accessible, interactive and historical map of the city of Lviv.
http://www.lvivcenter.org/en/lia/map
Organisations
JISC Digital Media
Helping the UK’s FE and HE communities embrace and maximise the use of digital media - and to achieve solutions that are innovative, practical and cost effective.
http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk
Open Geospatial Consortium
A non-profit, international, voluntary consensus standards organization that is leading the development of standards for geospatial and location based services.
The Historical GIS Research Network
Manchester Public Participatory GIS Research Group
Develop and testing web-based Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to enhance public involvement and participation in environmental planning and decision making.
http://www.ppgis.manchester.ac.uk/
Resources
Mapping Hacks
Tagger
Code for building online fuzzy/vague GIS
http://www.ccg.leeds.ac.uk/software/tagger
AHDS Guide to good GIS Practice
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/goodguides/gis
Groundwork
Interactive Mapping Tools
http://www.groundwork-gis.org.uk/interactivemappingtool.htm
OpenGIS Geography Markup Language (GML)
Encoding Standard v.3.2.1
http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/gml
OWL Web Ontology Markup Guide
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-owl-guide-20040210
CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model
Provides definitions and a formal structure for describing the implicit and explicit concepts and relationships used in cultural heritage documentation.
Publications
'Case Studies Mapping the Flows of Content, Value and Rights across the Public Sector'
Dr Prodromos Tsiavos, March 2009
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/scaiprcasestudiesv2.pdf
‘Participatory GIS?’
G.Rambaldi, M. McCall, D. Weiner, P. Mbile and P. Kyem, 2004.
http://www.iapad.org/participatory_gis.htm
‘Le système d’information géographique TOTOPI: Topographie de Tours Pré-Industriel
X. Rodier