The 7th International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities (GeoHumanities 2023) was held, together with the 31st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, in Hamburg, Germany. This workshop has been a regular venue for computational research at the cutting edge of spatial data creation, curation, analysis, visualization, and interpretation in the humanities. It brings together researchers and practitioners from computer science, the geographical information sciences, and the humanities, whose work combines humanistic questions with computational spatial methods. The GeoHumanities series of workshops supports interdisciplinary, and often collaborative, research that makes novel contributions to both the humanities and the sciences.
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Towards an Extensible Framework for Understanding Spatial Narratives
- Ignatius Ezeani,
- Paul Rayson,
- Ian Gregory,
- Erum Haris,
- Anthony Cohn,
- John Stell,
- Tim Cole,
- Joanna Taylor,
- David Bodenhamer,
- Neil Devadasan,
- Erik Steiner,
- Zephyr Frank,
- Jackie Olson
Spatial narratives help us to organize experiences and give them meaning. Previous approaches to understanding geographies in textual sources focus on geoparsing to automatically identify place names and allocate them to coordinates. Those are highly ...
Storytelling about Industrial Territories in a Place using a 3D Urban Environment
Storytelling is one of the oldest ways by which humans have been informed about different societal problems across the ages. Over the past few years, there has been an increasing change in the way we incorporate recent technological advancements into ...
Automatic Nested Spatial Entity and Spatial Relation Extraction From Text for Knowledge Graph Creation: A Baseline Approach and a Benchmark Dataset
Automatically extracting geographic information from text is the key to harnessing the vast amount of spatial knowledge that only exists in this unstructured form. The fundamental elements of spatial knowledge include spatial entities, their types and ...
The UDC California Division Members Database: Using Spatial Analysis to Shed new Light on the Formation of Civil War Memory in California
The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) in California played a pivotal role in advancing the "Lost Cause" narrative in the state, including erecting Confederate Memorials. Their activities molded a Californian public perception that aligned more ...
Text Mining Analysis of Perception in Archaeological Landscapes: The Case of Stonehenge
This paper presents a computational methodological framework applied to the study of academic literature about surviving tangible heritage to highlight existing heritage data located within these sources. This approach analyzes the perceptions, ...
Extracting positive descriptions and exploring landscape value using text analysis in the Cairngorms National Park
Being in natural places is known to influence well-being. Therefore, increasing attention is being paid to the diverse ways in which our emotions can be influenced by places, and this paper investigates this notion in a protected area -- the Cairngorms ...
Handling imperfection of spatial knowledge for the study of French maritime places dynamics along the 18th century
Maritime history archives contain a large number of toponyms whose meaning is sometimes difficult to grasp. They are lacunary and not quite homogeneous like most of historical datasets. The PORTIC project (https://anr.portic.fr/) intends to take into ...
High Quality and Resilient Historical Vector Data: An open-source workflow for the creation of historical geospatial data
While digitized georeferenced maps have become increasingly available to researchers over the past years, astonishingly little progress has been made in the realm of the production of historical vector data. In contrast to the well documented workflows ...
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
This paper describes the iterative process of conflating historical population statistics for the medieval and early modern Low Countries. This process improves the quality of analyses of the data by adding fine-grained geospatial definitions to the ...
From Uncertainty to Action: Recalibrating Digital and Spatial Humanities Methods and Tools for Non-standard Historical Data from Global South
The research aims to recalibrate digital humanities methods and tools for effectively analyzing uncertain and complex colonial historical data to extract fuzzy toponyms. Additionally, I investigate how advanced digital techniques can contribute to the ...
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Acceptance Rates
| Year | Submitted | Accepted | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| GeoHumanities '20 | 8 | 5 | 63% |
| GeoHumanities '19 | 8 | 6 | 75% |
| GeoHumanities '18 | 5 | 4 | 80% |
| Overall | 21 | 15 | 71% |