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Historical GIS as a community resource: the vision of Britain through time project

Historical GIS as a community resource: the vision of Britain through time project. Paul S. Ell Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis Queen’s University Belfast paul.ell@qub.ac.uk. GBH GIS - The Academic Resource. The first national historical GIS to be copleted

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Historical GIS as a community resource: the vision of Britain through time project

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  1. Historical GIS as a community resource: the vision of Britain through time project Paul S. Ell Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis Queen’s University Belfast paul.ell@qub.ac.uk

  2. GBH GIS - The Academic Resource • The first national historical GIS to be copleted • Time-variant administrative boundaries from 1860s • 20+ million data values mostly from censuses (excluding derived data) • Runs in ArcGIS • Components available from UKBorders and AHDS History • Scholarly outputs from the GIS – CUP, Historical Geography, county atlas, Historical Methods, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society etc • No funds to make the resource accessible

  3. Towards an e-cultural atlas • $1,500,000 grant from NOF-Digitisation • Funding started early 2002 • Three year project which finished early 2005 • See www.visionofbritain.org.uk

  4. Content of the Atlas • Core is our existing boundary GIS and statistical datasets • This core is heavily disguised! • Much additional information added

  5. Additional census data

  6. Reports with each census

  7. Historical Gazetteers

  8. Travellers’ Tales

  9. Historical Maps • For the nineteenth century: Smith’s New Map of the United Kingdom, 1806; Wilkinson’s The British Isles, 1812; Ordnance Survey First Series, c.1830/40s • For the twentieth century: Land Use maps; Ordnance Survey 10 inch 1904 series; Ordnance Survey New Popular Edition, c.1940s

  10. The website www.visionofbritain.org.uk

  11. Historical maps

  12. Census reports

  13. Historical Gazetteers

  14. Travellers’ Tales

  15. An integrated resource

  16. Mapping

  17. Expert interface • Scholars should probably go to AHDS History and UKBorders to get the ArcGIS compatible data • Vision of Britain website

  18. Who was involved…

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