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Mapping Space in an Ancient Historian: the Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Image Archive (HESTIA)
Mapping Information with and without GeographyApproaches to Data Visualization and Structure in the Arts, Humanities and
Social Sciences
e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, 30th September - 1st October 2009
Principal Investigator – Elton Barker, The Open UniversityCo-Investigator – Chris Pelling, Christ Church, OxfordCo-Investigator – Stefan Bouzaroski, University of BirminghamIT consultant – Leif Isaksen, University of Southampton
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Approaches to space in Herodotus
A map of Herodotus’ world, according to Wikipedia…
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Source of digital text: Perseus
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Herodotus in XML
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The HESTIA Database
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HESTIA in GIS: all placesred = settlement; yellow = region; blue = physical feature
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GIS: all placenames (Pontus region)
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GIS: all settlements in book 1 (Aegean region)
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GIS: reference count (settlements)
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GIS: co-reference network density (regions)
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Payek: e.g. Internet industries (after Krebs)
219 nodes (companies), 631 edges (partnerships), 3 colours (kind) the nodal size is proportional to its betweenness
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Google Earth: mashup of locations in Herodotus
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Google Timeline (after Nick Rabinowitz)
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• To be continued…
• For results, as and when they occur, go to: http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/hestia/ [email protected]
• End of project conference: ‘Imagining space in texts: developing new analytical techniques for classicists and geographers’, 1-3 July 2010