Hestia2 seminar: registration open

[Tom Brughmans]

Apologies for cross-posting

The Hestia project is pleased to announce “HESTIA2: Exploring spatial networks through ancient sources”, a one-day seminar on spatial network analysis and linked data in Classical studies, archaeology and cultural heritage.

The seminar will be held at The University of Southampton on 18 July. Registration for this event is free, but we do recommend registering as early as possible since the number of available places is limited. More information, including abstracts and registration, can be found via the following link: http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/hestia-2013/

We are looking forward to welcoming you to Southampton!

Elton Barker, Stefan Bouzarovski, Leif Isaksen and Tom Brughmans

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HESTIA2: Exploring spatial networks through ancient sources

Spatial relationships appear throughout our sources about the past: from the ancient roads that connect cities, or ancient authors mentioning political alliances between places, to the stratigraphic contexts archaeologists deal with in their fieldwork. However, as datasets about the past become increasingly large, spatial relationships become ever more difficult to disentangle. Network visualization and analysis allow us to address such spatial relationships explicitly and directly. This seminar aims to explore the potential of these innovative techniques for research in the higher education, public and cultural heritage sector.

The seminar is part of Hestia2, a public engagement project aimed at introducing a series of conceptual and practical innovations to the spatial reading and visualisation of texts. Following on from the AHRC-funded initiative ‘Network, Relation, Flow: Imaginations of Space in Herodotus’s Histories’ (Hestia: http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/hestia/ ), Hestia2 represents a deliberate shift from experimenting with geospatial analysis of a single text to making Hestia’s outcomes available to new audiences and widely applicable to other texts through a seminar series, online platform, blog and learning materials with the purpose of fostering knowledge exchange between researchers and non-academics, and generating public interest and engagement in this field.

Preliminary programme:

11:00                     Registration and coffee

11:30                     HESTIA-team

                                Welcome and introduction to HESTIA and HESTIA2

12:00                     Maximilian Schich (The University of Texas at Dallas)

                                Topography and Topology: Towards common ground in archaeological research

12:25                     Alex Godden (Hampshire County Council)

                                Historic Environment Records: New ways of looking for the past

12:50                     John Goodwin (Ordnance Survey)

                                Ordnance Survey and Linked Data

13:15                     Discussion

13:35                     Tea and coffee break

13:55                     Terhi Nurmikko (University of Southampton)

                                “To survey the land, he left his city” and other proverbs: Mapping ancient Mesopotamia from cuneiform inscriptions

14:20                     Kate Byrne (University of Edinburgh)

                                Geoparsing and spatial network analysis in the GAP projects

14:45                     Giorgio Uboldi (Politecnico di Milano)

                                Knot: an Interface for the Study of Social Networks in the Humanities

15:10                     Discussion

15:35                     Tea and coffee break

16:00                     Keith May (English Heritage)

                                Exploring the Use of Semantic Technologies for Cross-Search of Archaeological Grey Literature and Data

16:25                     Paul Cripps (University of Glamorgan)

                                GeoSemantic Technologies for Archaeological Resources