*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

* ArcInfo/Arcview - ESRI
* Erdas ArcView Image Analysis - Erdas
* ER Mapper/Image Web Server/OrthoWarpER - Earth Resource Mapping
* Erdas Imagine/Erdas Essentials - ESRI (UK)
* Idrisi/CartaLinx - Clark Labs
* MapInfo Pro/MapBasic/MapX/MapExtreme - MapInfo
* PCI Geomatica - PCI Geomatics

* Bartholomew digital map data - HarperCollins
* Cities Revealed aerial photography - GeoInformation
* Geoplan post code data - Geoplan
* Isle of Man Survey Digital Map Data
* Landmap - orthorectified satellite image mosaics of Landsat, SPOT and ERS radar data and a high resolution
* Digital Elevation Model for the whole of the UK
* Millennium Map Digital Aerial Photographic Library - Wildgoose (Getmapping)
* MultiNet Digital Map Data - TeleAtlas
* Satellite 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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