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Knowles, Anne Kelly

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“…For the advantages in data management, spatial analysis, and user-friendly information interpretation, GIS has been used in conservation of cultural heritage since the 1990s. The development and the integrated use of GIS, remote sensing and Global Positioning System (GPS) within archaeological and historical contexts became of great importance in the early 2000s especially when the concept of "Historical GIS" (HGIS) was developed (Knowles, 2000;Gregory & Healey, 2007;Bailey & Schick, 2009). As Knowles's (2013) definition, HGIS became a digital approach used to "study the past spatially".…”

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The application of GIS in railway heritage management: the case of Yunnan-Vietnam Railway

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Piovan

2019

Proc. Int. Cartogr. Assoc.

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<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Railways were a key mode of transporting goods and people for industrial and urban development in the late modern age. Their special part in economic growth comes with their role in the development of cultural heritage along their pathways. However, because of competing urban construction, many railway heritages are in danger, such as the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway (YVR) in China, an important international narrow-gauge railway built in 1901, acknowledged as a railway heritage in 2018. As a typical linear heritage, the railway integrates both the natural and cultural landscapes, related to the large spatial extent and complex composition of single heritage elements. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) offer a great support in the investigation, assessment, and management of railway heritage. In this research, the huge cultural heritage related to the YVR was studied using a combined geo-historical and GIS approach. This paper aims to 1) give a brief review of the current status of the application of GIS on linear railway heritages studies, including heritage resources surveys, spatial analysis, thematic mapping and public service, 2) introduce the case study of the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, and 3) present a geodatabase design for the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway heritage management.</p>

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The application of GIS in railway heritage management: the case of Yunnan-Vietnam Railway

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2019

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“…3. See, among many others, from geography: Crampton 2010; Goodchild 2006;and Pickles 1995; from history: Bol 2013; Gregory 2005;Gregory and Ell 2007;and Knowles 2000;and from sociology: Logan 2012. 4. See the next section of this review for a brief overview of GIS.…”

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in International Relations

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are being applied with increasing frequency, and with increasing sophistication, in international relations and in political science more generally. Their benefits have been impressive: analyses that simply would not have been possible without GIS are now being completed, and the spatial component of international politics—long considered central but rarely incorporated analytically—has been given new emphasis. However, new methods face new challenges, and to apply GIS successfully, two specific issues need to be addressed: measurement validity and selection bias. Both relate to the challenge of conceptualizing nonspatial phenomena with the spatial tools of GIS. Significant measurement error can occur when the concepts that are coded as spatial variables are not, in fact, validly measured by the default data structure of GIS, and selection bias can arise when GIS systematically excludes certain types of units. Because these potential problems are hidden by the technical details of the method, GIS data sets and analyses can sometimes appear to overcome these challenges when, in fact, they fail to do so. Once these issues come to light, however, potential solutions become apparent—including some in existing applications in international relations and in other fields.

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“…I argued in the introduction that the particular value of HGIS was that it “makes space an explicit part of analysis. It extends quantification and systematic empirical analysis to questions, scales, and evidence that few historians have considered” (Knowles 2000b: 452). Furthermore, GIS could improve the quality of historical analysis by enabling the creation and use of historically accurate boundaries and by making it easier for analysts to consider the enabling and constraining effects of physical geography (ibid.).…”

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Historical Geographic Information Systems and Social Science History

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2016

Social Science History

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The interdisciplinary field of historical geographic information systems (HGIS) took root and flourished at the Social Science History Association (SSHA) in the late 1990s and early 2000s. This essay first recounts the growth of HGIS at SSHA and beyond. It then considers challenges that GIS continues to pose for historians and other scholars, such as the unfamiliarity of its conceptual framework and the time and expense often involved in building HGIS databases. The bare-bones visual culture of Social Science History may inhibit submissions by HGIS scholars, whose work typically includes color maps. Yet the enduring methodological and interdisciplinary interests of SSHA members provide a strong basis for continuing involvement by historians who use GIS. The essay closes with new directions in HGIS scholarship, including study of empirical uncertainty, historical gazetteers, textual analysis linked to GIS mapping, and comparison of topology and topography.

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The application of GIS in railway heritage management: the case of Yunnan-Vietnam Railway

The application of GIS in railway heritage management: the case of Yunnan-Vietnam Railway

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