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Modelling the City Formal Ontology and Spatial Humanities
Modelling the City focuses on European towns and cities, analysing the opportunities and limitations of modelling of urban space.
This book examines how urban space from the past is discovered, explained and presented. It discusses the multitude of historical sources mediating the past urban space, and the structural, technical, and epistemological issues raised around building a domain ontology, including continuity, and change within urban forms and functions.
Presentation of a formal domain ontology in spatial humanities makes this book unique and worth reading. It is strongly recommended to readers interested in the linked open data approach to research, data standards in Digital Humanities, urban planning, and old maps.
Introduction How to build a solid house, or about the historical ontology of the urban space project, Wiesława Duży I. Media, sources, data model 1. Modelling as a bridge between maps, spatial concepts, and the territory, Øyvind Eide; 2. An ontology of geographical places and their spatio-temporal, social evolution in the context of an ecosystem of CIDOC CRM extensions for humanities and social sciences (SDHSS), Francesco Beretta; 3. Naming the parts: Identifying key features within the urban landscapes of England and Wales circa 1900, Humphrey Southall and Paula Aucott II. Investigating urban space 4. Narrating Szczecin: Creation of urban authenticity through touristic city trails, Tabitha Redepenning; 5. How names transform space: The change of street names in Poznań and Gdynia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Grigori Chlesberg; 6. Uncertain information and spatial objects: Examples from works on the HOUSe project and the European Historic Towns Atlas series, Anna-Lena Schumacher, Michał Słomski, and Daniel Stracke III. Mapping objects in urban space 7. Polish Database of Topographic Objects 1:10,000 as a basis for building the formal domain Historical Ontology of Urban Spaces: Construction, verification, validation, Katarzyna Słomska-Przech & Wiesława Duży; 8. Cartography and the city: Exploring urban ontologies through historic town-maps, Katarzyna Słomska-Przech and Keith D. Lilley; 9. Changes in spatial development of Lviv from the second half of eighteenth century to the present day, Marta Demchyna, Katarzyna Słomska-Przech and Tomasz Panecki; Index
Biography
Wiesława Duży is Assistant Professor at the Department of Historical Atlas at the Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences. She is also part of a project at the Faculty of History, “People, Places, and Events” of the University of Warsaw, Poland. Her research interests include social history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, domain ontologies in the Humanities and spatial historical databases.
