On the Cyberinfrastructure for GIS-Enabled Historiography
From a historian's perspective, the use of GIScience and technology in the study of history holds the promise of an integration of historical and geographic modes of analysis. The national geographic information systems (GIS) that provide extensive coverage of changes in administrative
structures over time provide important support for GIS-enabled historiography. Other parts of the cyberinfrastructure necessary to support collaborative research in a digital environment are now beginning to emerge, but a world-historical gazetteer, an essential tool for linking historical
data to mapped places, has yet to be developed.
Keywords: GIS; SIG; ciber-infraestructura; cyberinfrastructure; diccionario geográfico; gazetteer; historia; history
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University,
Publication date: 01 September 2013
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