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[Mary Ruvane]

Call For Papers: 
2007 Meeting of The American Association of Geographers (AAG), April 17-21
2007, San Francisco  <http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/SF2007/index.cfm>
 
Session Title:
Historical GIS: reconstructing early American settlement patterns 


Session Theme:
Few large-scale maps exist depicting historical settings of past
neighborhoods in America.  While surveys of individual tracts of land in the
original 13 colonies often survive, cadastral maps that situate parcels in
relation to each other are rare.  The greatest challenge involves
reconstructing the patchwork pattern associated with a metes and bounds
survey system. Less problematic are prior neighborhoods in the western
states, where the rectangular public land survey system was employed.  GIS
technology offers one method for consolidating and presenting evidence of
site-specific historical spatial data, often culled from archival material
and historical accounts.  Geographers, historians, genealogists, information
scientists, and a variety of allied disciplines could benefit from lessons
learned from those currently employing a GIS, or related computer
technology, for visually reconstructing 17th and 18th century environments
in America.

Papers in this session should address the challenge of historical geomatics,
"the art, science and technologies related to the management of
geographically-referenced information."  Of interest are the activities
involved with acquiring and analyzing localized spatial data,
characteristics of the source material consulted, and methods for managing,
sharing and preserving the resulting digital media (e.g., GIS maps,
supporting image files, documentation, databases, etc.).  Although this
session aims to focus on the activities of reconstructing cadastral surveys
it welcomes contributions related to modernizing early explorers surveys,
hydrographic surveys, administrative boundary shifts, or similar historic
conditions previously unmapped digitally.

If interested in participating in this session please submit a brief
abstract (250 words or less) no later than October 23 to Mary B. Ruvane at
ruvane at email.unc.edu.  You do not have to be a member of the AAG to
participate.  Accepted contributors will need to register and submit their
abstracts for the conference by October 25 -- unless the AAG extends their
deadline.
 
Coordinators:
Dr. Ian Gregory
Digital Humanities-Department of History, Lancaster University, Lancaster,
England I.Gregory at lancaster.ac.uk 
Mary B. Ruvane
School of Information and Library Science, University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill ruvane at email.unc.edu