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Reflections on the Southampton Workshop

I’ve come into Hestia2 feeling like a bit of an interloper, asked by my former colleague Stefan Bouzarovski to join the original team in order to organise one of the workshops (which we’ll be holding in Birmingham in the new year). So it was with a little trepidation that I made my way down to Southampton for the inaugural meeting on a baking hot 18 July. Meeting Elton Barker and other members of the team for the first time further convinced me that I’m part of a really exciting project.

Seminars Posted by Enrico Daga 24 Jul 2013 / 0 comments

A Seminar on Approaches to Geospatial Analysis

A report on the Hestia2 seminar in Southampton, 18 July 2013

Spatial relationships appear throughout our sources about the past: from the ancient roads that connect cities, or the political alliances between places identified by ancient authors, to the stratigraphic contexts archaeologists deal with in their fieldwork. Of course, spatial relationships are also important in contemporary documents and have a key role to play in urban planning and cultural heritage management. However, as the digital medium is increasingly used in recording information, datasets have become increasingly large, making spatial relationships ever more difficult to disentangle. The challenge is particularly acute when trying to extract spatial relationships from texts.