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Space as an artefact Understanding past perceptions and uses of space with and without computers Stuart Dunn King’s College London Digital Classicist Work in Progress Seminar Senate House, London 10th August 2007
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Divide and rule Image from bbc.co.uk/news
Divide and rule ,[object Object],[object Object]
A Time and a Place for Everything ‘ In a number of ways the  methods  of the geographer both at the hard (I.e. physcial) and softer (i.e. social or political) ends have already proved of great value to the archaeologist … [B]ut when the geographer seeks to look more closely at the role of human action in the past, he or she must set that action in a context that is more than simply spatial’  Colin Renfrew The Geographical Journal,  Vol  149 , No. 3, November 1983
Space and Time: Methods in Geospatial Computing for Mapping the Past (Edinburgh, 23rd-24th July 2007) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Scale ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Scale - representation 686 727
Heterogeneity ,[object Object],[object Object]
[object Object],Heterogeneity [I]nnovation can come from without as well as within … In fact, its real skill lies in stitching together [original] ideas with technologies from outside and then wrapping the reults in elegant software and stylish design … [producing] new products around the needs of the user, not the demands of technology’ -  ‘Lessons from Apple’,  The Economist,  June 9th 2007 © 2001, Sara Madry
[object Object],[object Object],Heterogeneity ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],© 2001, Sara Madry
Heterogeneity - ‘Neogeography’ ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],‘ We cannot take control of a disciplinary vocabulary and impose it on other researchers. We are are not all logicists. I am certainly not a logicist, and I never will be.’
Standards and Metadata ,[object Object],- Access - Interoperability ,[object Object],[object Object]
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Standards and Metadata
Standards and Metadata ‘ To establish … whether GIS technology might facilitate the location, retrieval and interrogation of e-resources made available through the Data Grid’
Conclusions - priorities ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/772/ http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/theme

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10 8 2007 Digital Classicist Work in Progress seminar

  • 1. Space as an artefact Understanding past perceptions and uses of space with and without computers Stuart Dunn King’s College London Digital Classicist Work in Progress Seminar Senate House, London 10th August 2007
  • 2.
  • 3. Divide and rule Image from bbc.co.uk/news
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  • 5. A Time and a Place for Everything ‘ In a number of ways the methods of the geographer both at the hard (I.e. physcial) and softer (i.e. social or political) ends have already proved of great value to the archaeologist … [B]ut when the geographer seeks to look more closely at the role of human action in the past, he or she must set that action in a context that is more than simply spatial’ Colin Renfrew The Geographical Journal, Vol 149 , No. 3, November 1983
  • 6.
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  • 16. Standards and Metadata ‘ To establish … whether GIS technology might facilitate the location, retrieval and interrogation of e-resources made available through the Data Grid’
  • 17.