7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities

Will be held in conjunction with ACM SIGSPATIAL 2027 in Hamburg, Germany.

Program

Monday, November 13, 2023

Location: Hamburg, Germany

The workshop proceedings are available in the ACM Digital Library: https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3615887

The program is as follows (CET time zone):

08:00 - 08:10 - Opening remarks and announcements

08:10 - 09:15 : Session 1

08:10-08:30 - The UDC California Division Members Database: Using Spatial Analysis to Shed new Light on the Formation of CivilWar Memory in California [Slides]
Or Rappel-Kroyzer, Tel-Aviv University

08:30-08:45 - Handling imperfection of spatial knowledge for the study of French maritime places dynamics along the 18th century [Slides]
Christine Plumejeaud-Perreau, Université de Poitiers

08:45-09:00 - Extracting positive descriptions and exploring landscape value using text analysis in the Cairngorm National Park [Slides]
Daniela Mariño, University of Zurich; Ludovic Moncla, INSA Lyon; Ross Purves, University of Zurich

09:00-09:15 - Text Mining Analysis of Perception in Archaeological Landscapes: The Case of Stonehenge [Slides]
Haley Anne Schwartz, Universitat de Barcelona

09:25-10:30 : Session 2

09:25-09:45 - Automatic Nested Spatial Entity and Spatial Relation Extraction From Text for Knowledge Graph Creation: A Baseline Approach and a Benchmark Dataset [Slides]
Helen Mair Rawsthorne, Univ Gustave Eiffel, IGN-ENSG; Nathalie Abadie, Univ Gustave Eiffel, IGN-ENSG; Eric Kergosien, Université de Lille; Cécile Duchêne, Univ Gustave Eiffel, IGN-ENSG; Eric Saux, École navale

09:45-10:00 - From Uncertainty to Action: Recalibrating Digital and Spatial Humanities Methods and Tools for Non-standard Historical Data from Global South
Shanmugapriya T, University of Toronto

10:00-10:15 - High Quality and Resilient Historical Vector Data. An open-source workflow for the creation of historical geospatial data [Slides]
Niklas Alt, Hessisches Institut für Landesgeschichte (Hessian Institute for Regional History), Marburg

10:15-10:30 - Conflating Historical Population Statistics Using a Historical GIS with a Flexible Semantic Model for Premodern Administrative Units in the Low Countries. The (Re)counting the Uncounted and Historical Atlas of the Low Countries Projects [Slides]
Rombert Stapel, International Institute of Social History

10:30 - 11:00 - Coffee break

11:00 - 11:40 : Session 3

11:00-11:20- Towards an Extensible Framework for Understanding Spatial Narratives [Slides]
Ignatius Ezeani, Lancaster University; Paul Rayson, Lancaster University; Ian Gregory, Lancaster University; Anthony Cohn, University of Leeds; John Stell, University of Leeds; Erum Harris, University of Leeds; Tim Cole, University of Bristol; Joanna Taylor, The University of Manchester; David Bodenhamer, Indiana University–Purdue University; Neil Devadasan, Indiana University–Purdue University; Erik Steiner, Stanford University; Zephyr Frank, Stanford University; Jackie Olson, Stanford University

11:20-11:40 - Storytelling about Industrial Territories in a Place using a 3D Urban Environment [Slides]
Lorenzo Marnat, Université de Lyon 1 Clémentine Périnaud, Labex IMU John Samuel, CPE Lyon Gilles Gesquière, Université Lumière Lyon 2

11:40 - 12:00 : Wrap-up discussion & future directions