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Pasts in Space: Creating and curating your gazetteer

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In person workshop in the Senate House MakerSpace (room 265 - second floor), Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. Free. Advance registration required. Students and scholars at all career stages and all levels of technical knowledge are welcome.
When Oct 22, 2024
from 02:00 PM to 05:30 PM
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Contact Phone 020 7862 8716
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More information and to register: https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/pasts-space-creating-and-curating-your-gazetteer

Pasts in space is a two-day series of workshops for historians, archivists, and archaeologists. Through discussion and hands-on exploration, participants will learn about resources and techniques for using, creating, and sharing information about past places and spaces for their research, teaching, and scholarly communication. Particular emphasis will be placed on theoretical and "fuzzy” aspects: how to deal with incomplete, unlocatable, contingent, disputed, and uncertain toponyms and locations over the course of a project or investigation.

Part 1 "Toward usable data" will focus on spatial knowledge systems and models for understanding and structuring spatial data (from coordinates to relationships); different definitions of the same "place"; and machine-actionable formats for past-oriented data, including the Linked Places Format, the Text Encoding Initiative, and Comma-Separated Values (CSV).

Part 2 "Creating and curating" will address incremental data collection and editing, as well as tracing origins and controlling data versions over time.

Speakers: Valeria Vitale (University of Sheffield), Tom Elliott (New York University)

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