UrbanMetaMapping Transfer Kick-Off
Description
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Monument lists and inventories usually contain information on individual buildings. For urban monument preservation, which deals with a collection of historical buildings or entire city districts, historical maps, such as cadastral maps showing individual buildings, are fundamental sources. The UMMT workshop addresses questions about how information about buildings can be unlocked from historical paper maps, enriched with additional information, compared with other maps or data, and analysed in depth. The goals of analyses with geoinformation systems (GIS) could for example be
- to record monument values or the age of construction for entire urban areas
- to make historical processes such as the construction, destruction or reconstruction of buildings comprehensible
- to critically analyse and compare maps in their capacity as historical documents
The workshop will discuss...
- which research questions can be asked with the help of historical maps and historical topographical data
- how historical maps and related documents in the archive can best be indexed and, if possible due to copyright, made digitally accessible
- the benefits of historical research for the field of heritage preservation
- how information from historical maps can be vectorized using automated processes and made accessible for GIS
- where common lines of research for possible joint method development and use arise for workshop participants
- explore potential funding opportunities, ideally at the European level
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