Rapid reconstruction of historical urban landscape: The surroundings of Czech chateaux and castles

Tobiáš, Pavel; Cajthaml, Jiri; Krejčí, Jiří

doi:10.1016/j.culher.2017.09.020

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“…Therefore, we extract some useful information contained in the records containing references to cabreves, analyse this information, and evaluate its availability for being introduced in a HGIS. This approach shares similarities to some studies on processing old cadastral maps in HGIS (Harvey, Kaim and Gajda, 2014;Frajer and Fiedor, 2021), building 3D models from 2D cartographic or photographic sources (Tobiáš, Cajthaml and Krejčí, 2018;Gatta, Arioti and Bitelli, 2017). However, in this work we are building 2D models from simple textual references.…”

Section: The Cabreves In the Digital Archivesmentioning

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A visual data analysis for determining the geographical extent of the cabreves

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The historical cadastral archives are an important source of information to help understand our cultural heritage since they contain a trace of the activities, land uses, and buildings developed by people from different periods. However, in the era of Big Data there remain many historical documents of great value that have not been digitized or studied in depth. This is the case of the cabreves, which are precatastral documents used for centuries in several regions of Spain to document those properties that were subject to the payment of taxes to a feudal lord. Rescuing these data would enable studying the landscape structure of relatively recent dates for which there is no cadastral cartography. However, it is difficult to establish the state of conservation, degree of accessibility, content detail, and quality of the archived cabreves. In recent years, progress has been made in digitizing these sources. In Spain, the Spanish Archives Portal (PARES) harmonizes and unifies the efforts of national archives, and a significant number of documents have been archived in recent years. We use text mining techniques to analyze and map the records in which cabreves appear. Out of the 1,752 records found, a total of 1,408 cabreves have been geocoded and mapped, enabling us to establish which territories and periods can be studied using these sources. From this experience, we request that digital archives maintain a geographical perspective during archival appraisal.1. Select a representative repository for the entire area of study of the Crown of Aragon. Given the great wealth of sources and their diversity, it is necessary to focus this first study on a source that is sufficiently representative. 2. Propose a reproducible and extensible analysis methodology that enables the available information to be easily visualized. This methodology should also be applicable to other repositories or archives. 3. Determine the main characteristics of the cabreves found. It is useful to establish the conservation status, digitalization, possibility of downloading, among other features. 4. Describe the spatial and temporal distribution of the available cabreves. It is necessary that the available cabreves can be shown on maps. Importance of the cabreves as a source of geographical dataThe cabreves are public deeds linked to the emphyteusis or copyhold lease, the predominant legal formula in the Crown of Aragon -one of the most important crowns of the European Mediterranean and founded in the 12th century. Cabreves are pre-cadastral sources in which the emphyteutic copyholder declares the copyhold (dominium utile) on real estate and land, recognizing the dominium directum of the feudal Lord (Gil Olcina, 2012). The information contained in the cabreves is very detailed when describing the properties of each emphyteutic copyholder with surface size, location, and limits data, as well as annual taxes paid for each of the properties. In many cases, there is a succession of books over time (decades or centuries), which enables historical studi...

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Section: The Cabreves In the Digital Archivesmentioning

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A visual data analysis for determining the geographical extent of the cabreves

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“…The workflow of procedural modelling, which can be used to create virtual geospatial environments for significant cultural heritage buildings, was already published in Tobiáš, Cajthaml, and Krejčí (2018). This article is focused on the creation of the most important parts of the resulting models (i.e., on the 3D reconstruction of historically significant buildings and on the management of the resulting information).…”

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“…Our methodology of procedural modelling of historical urban landscapes with the use of CityEngine was presented in detail previously (Tobiáš et al, 2018). The methodology was focused on the creation of geospatial context for 3D models of chateaux based on old maps, archival photographs, and postcards.…”

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Models of cultural heritage buildings in a procedurally generated geospatial environment

Tobiáš

Cajthaml

2020

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The aim of this research is to combine building information modelling (BIM) and GIS techniques to develop a complete methodology suitable for the creation of simple information models of historical buildings and their integration into the context of 3D models of the surrounding landscape. The workflow starts with 3D modelling in BIM based on archival drawings and continues to the database storage, texturing, and management of classes and attributes in GIS. The result is a semantically structured model of a cultural heritage building with all important architectural elements identifiable and queryable. As 2D drawings are considered the main input, the workflow is well suited for recreating the historical state of the objects of interest, or even for models of buildings that no longer exist. Furthermore, the model is visualized as part of a semantic 3D web scene in a procedurally generated

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“…Such 2D or 3D GIScience‐based models can provide lots of virtual options to view and examine the data, such as rotation of scenes and views from almost any angle or aspect. More importantly, they may enable a new look at the past and consequently make significant theoretical contributions to urban development and human activity at the time (Page & Ross, 2015; Tobiáš, Cajthaml, & Krejčí, 2018).…”

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Advancing the historical geography of late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine using GIScience: A review

Zohar

2020

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Late Ottoman Empire and Mandate Palestine are two important periods preceding independent Israel, characterized by increased attention to Palestine along with modernization processes and substantial landscape changes. Significant increase is also noted in survey and mapping, resulting in a wealth of visual sources. However, while textual sources were used intensively in various studies, the latter were analyzed to a much lesser extent. A major discipline based on the study of visual sources is historical geography. However, lately it seems that historical geography worldwide seeks for new approaches while struggling to retain dominancy in an environment becoming more computerized and technological. In this article I review the opportunities, pitfalls, and challenges of incorporating GIScience into the historical geography of late Ottoman and Mandate Palestine. Accordingly, it is suggested that a proper integration will contribute a substantial theoretical and methodological novelty while boosting the discipline of historical geography as well as other social sciences and humanities disciplines.

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Rapid reconstruction of historical urban landscape: The surroundings of Czech chateaux and castles

Cited by 14 publications

References 12 publications

A visual data analysis for determining the geographical extent of the cabreves

A visual data analysis for determining the geographical extent of the cabreves

Models of cultural heritage buildings in a procedurally generated geospatial environment

Advancing the historical geography of late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine using GIScience: A review

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