Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
.uk/resources.htm, provides links to many of them); however, here we
are only concerned with the published literature that describes these
resources. A. Wilson, “Sydney
TimeMap:
Integrating Historical Re-
sources Using GIS,”
History and Computing
13 (2001): 45-69 describes a
museum exhibit system for Sydney, while on a wider scale, H. R. South-
all, “A Vision of Britain through Time: Making Sense of 200 Years of
Census Reports,”
Local Population Studies
76 (2006): 76-84 describes
how material from the Great Britain Historical GIS and elsewhere was
put on the Internet. These two papers are primarily concerned with
disseminating historical resources in a way that makes use of, and per-
haps stresses, their spatial component. An alternative approach to put-
ting historical GIS on the Internet is provided by B. C. Ray, “Teaching
the Salem Witchcraft Trials,” in Knowles,
Past Time, Past Place,
19-33,
which describes a system that includes not only primary sources but
also secondary material and the results of some of Ray's own analyses
on the Salem witchcraft trials. This is taken a stage further by W. G.
Thomas and E. L. Ayres, “An Overview: The Differences Slavery Made:
A Close Analysis of Two American Communities,”
American Historical
Review
108 (2003): 1298-1307 (htp://www.historycooperative.org/ahr
/elec-projects.html), which is primarily an academic publication report-
ing on the results of an analysis but also uses the electronic environment
to allow the reader to read the article in a nonlinear way and link back to
a wealth of related materials that would not conventionally be included
in a paper publication. Finally, R. G. Healey and J. Delve, “Integrating
GIS and Data Warehousing in a Web Environment: A Case Study of
the US 1880 Census,”
International Journal of Geographical Information
Science
21 (2007): 575-612 present a paper that shows how data-ware-
housing techniques can be used to respond to complex queries that may
be made by users over the Internet using examples of different way of
cross-tabulating and mapping results from individual-level data from
the 1880 U.S. census.
Urban Historical GIS
Urban studies is one of the areas in which historical GIS has made rapid
progress. A number of reasons can be identified for this, including, from
a database perspective, that cities are usually relatively small, making
