This workshop has now taken place. The detailed presentations are available to view as Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.
There are also links to further datasets, maps and tutorials
Details of the CHEST agreement for reduced price software and data are also available from here
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Links to other resources
GIS Guide to Good Practice
- Best standards in good practice in developing GIS resources. Relevant to all disciplines, with archaeological examples
- Written by various contributors and experts in GIS
A Place in History: A Guide to Using GIS in Historical Research
- An introduction to the subject for historians, covering both the technical and intellectual aspects of exploiting GIS
- Also includes an extensive bibliography
- Written by Ian Gregory, University of Portsmouth
Mapping Migration in Macedonia (external link)
- Website of Martyn Jessop project mentioned above
- Please note the project is still in development
Catalogue of Archaeology Data Service
- Numerous resources for use in research and teaching, including those based on GIS
- Freely available
Great Britain Historical Database
- Social, economic and political datasets of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, which can then be exploited via GIS software
- Data freely available, but registration required
- This data is created as part of the Great Britain Historical GIS Project
Oxford ArchDigital Ltd. (external link)
- Spin out company from University of Oxford, offering advice and tools for developing GIS
- Also vendors of Toadview and ToadHMS, image and heritage management systems
Gazetteer and Geographical Data Projects
- Various projects being run with the involvement of the History Data Service
EDINA (external link)
- Licenses much valuable map data on behalf on Higher and Further Education
- Includes DigiMap (Ordnance Survey map data) and UKBorders
ESRI Online Tutorials (external link)
- Online tutorials in creating and exploiting data in ArcView and other ESRI software packages
- Payment sometimes required but certain tutorials are free for those within institutions with ESRI Arc site licences
- ESRI also hosts gis.com a website featuring a large number of GIS issues
TimeMap (external link)
- Exploring research methods in the humanities with spatial and temporal components
- TimeMap software also available from here
GIgateway - The Guide to Geographic Information (external link)
- Directory of geographic information in the UK
- This was formally known as AskGIraffe
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CHEST Agreement for reduced price software and data
A number of GIS/spatial analysis products are available to academic institutions under specially-negotiated Agreements through CHEST - the educational shop window for purchases of software, data, information, training materials and other IT related products. The majority of these Agreements are for site licences and if you are interested in any particular product you are advised to check with CHEST (helpdesk@chest.ac.uk) before placing an order, to establish whether your institution is already licensed.
The products currently available are: (each of these links will take you to the relevant part of the CHEST site)
SOFTWARE
MAPPING DATA
All licences cover academic and non-commercial research usage.
Trials/evaluation copies are available for some products, and you should check the "Overview" under each link for full details of licence terms and conditions.
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