Workshop "GIS of Byzantium" On June 14th and 15th 2013, an international workshop on the application of Historical Geographical Information Systems for Byzantine history will take place at the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum in Mainz, organised by the Museum (Dir. Prof. Falko Daim), the University of Mainz (Prof. Dr. Anton Escher, Prof. Dr. Johannes Pahlitzsch) and the Division for Byzantinie Research of the Austrian Academy (Doz. Dr. Mihailo Popovic). Also a number of colleagues from Vienna will take part in this event. P R O G R A M Workshop GIS of Byzantium FRIDAY, 14 June 2013 13.00 – 13.30 Opening 13.30 – 14.00 Mapping the Roman Empire from home (René Voorburg) 14.00 – 14.30 Near Eastern Spaces from the Angle of Islamic History: A GIS and Atlas of the Ayyubid and Early Mamlūk Periods (12th -14th c.) (Dr. Kurt Franz & Martin Grosch) 14.30 – 15.00 Using Online GIS to Promote the Cartographic Heritage (Jean-Luc Arnaud) 15.00 – 15.30 Tea/Coffee Break 15.30 – 16.00 A 2013 Space Odyssey: Using GIS, webmapping and linked data to discover and analyse the ancient world online (Elton Barker) 16.00 – 16.30 OpenATLAS - a database application for the work with spatial, archaeological and historical data (Stefan Eichert) 16.30 – 17.00 Semantic Aspects of Spatial Data in Archaeology (Ashish Karmacharya) 17.00 – 17.30 Spatiotemporal Aspects in Archaeological Data Infrastructures (Tobias Kohr) 18.00 Reception at the Collection of Early Medieval Period, RGZM 19.30 Dinner Saturday, 15 June 2013 09.00 – 09.30 Beyond the Region: the Use of Meta-GIS in the Development of Cross- Regional Syntheses (Dr. James Newhard) 09.30 – 10.00 A GIS-based approach to the study of rock-monasteries and hermitages of Byzantine Laconia (Ludovic Bender) 10.00 – 10.30 Mapping the Jewish Communities of the Byzantine Empire: a GIS Approach (Dr. Gethin P. Rees) 10.30 – 11.00 Tea/Coffee Break 11.00 – 11.30 TIB Revisited: Pushing TIB 16 Macedonia, Northern Part to Its Digital Peak (PD Dr. Mihailo Popović) 11.30 – 12.00 Connected Ports. Mapping maritime networks of Byzantium (Dr. Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Dominik Heher & Grigori Simeonov) 12.00 – 13.00 Discussion of the Results about 13.00 End of the Workshop web.rgzm.de/1699.html
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