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There is also the potential to use other types of sources within GIS.
J. Hallam and L. Roberts (who also have a paper in this volume), “Map-
ping, Memory and the City: Archives, Databases and Film Historiogra-
phy,”
European Journal of Cultural Studies
14 (2011): 355-72 explore how
movies can be used within GIS to gain a beter understanding of urban
history using the example of Liverpool. J. Robinson, “Mapping the Place
of Pantomime in a Victorian Town,” in
Victorian Pantomime: A Collection
of Critical Essays,
ed. J. Davis (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
explores how GIS can be used to explore theater history.
Thus it is clear that while the spatial humanities are in a relatively
early stage, perhaps comparable with where historical GIS was around a
decade ago, pioneering work in the development of databases is occur-
ring, and rapid progress can be expected as this develops.