The historical GIS is, without any doubt, a powerful means of communication of historical phenomena for the public and also of collecting georeferenceable historical source through crowdsourcing activities, but the complexity of the data model underlying a GIS can also distance the public from understanding the complexity of the phenomena themselves. From this point of view the role of the Digital Public Historian is essential: not only will he/she have to be able to construct a GIS with a methodologically correct data model, but he/she will have to find the right ways of communicating it in order to make the GIS an effective tool of understanding and sharing the past.

Historical GIS.

Enrica Salvatori
2022-01-01

Abstract

The historical GIS is, without any doubt, a powerful means of communication of historical phenomena for the public and also of collecting georeferenceable historical source through crowdsourcing activities, but the complexity of the data model underlying a GIS can also distance the public from understanding the complexity of the phenomena themselves. From this point of view the role of the Digital Public Historian is essential: not only will he/she have to be able to construct a GIS with a methodologically correct data model, but he/she will have to find the right ways of communicating it in order to make the GIS an effective tool of understanding and sharing the past.
2022
Mogorovich, Paolo; Salvatori, Enrica
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