Visualizing the Past Workshop
University of Richmond: February 20-21, 2009
7:45am and 8:15am: Shuttles from hotel to Jepson Alumni Center
8:30am: Breakfast
9:00am: Andrew Torget and James Wilson: Welcome, introductions, and opening remarks
10:00am: Session 1
- J. B. Owens, "Visualizing Historical Narratives: Geographically Integrated History and Dynamics GIS
- Jeanette Zerneke, "From Historical GIS to Seeing History"
- May Yuan and Chris Weaver, "Visual Analytics and Applications to Historical Data"
- Discussion
12:00pm: Lunch
- Josh Wall, "Microsoft Surface and Virtual Earth"
1:30pm: Session 2
- Rafael Alvarado, "The Semantic Web as a Tool for Visualization and Collaboration: The House Divided Project and the Underground Railroad"
- Kurt Rohloff, "CWEST: Disruptive Integration of Computation Technology for Data Analysis and Visualization"
- David Arctur and Phillip Dibner, "Interoperability, Knowledge Integration, and the Study of Historical Processes"
- Discussion
3:30pm: Afternoon break
4:00pm: Session 3
- David Bodenhamer, "Visualizing Complex Data in an Online Historical GIS: Twentieth Century Religious Adherence Data as a Testbed"
- Peter Pulsifer, "The Role of Cybercartography in Exploring, Visualizing and Preserving the Past"
- S. Max Edelson and Alan Craig, "Rendering Digital Maps: Using and Displaying Images in the Cartography of American Colonization Database"
- Discussion
6:00pm: Shuttle picks up to return to hotel
7:45am and 8:15am: Shuttles from hotel to Jepson Alumni Center
8:30am: Breakfast
9:00am: Session 4
- Peter Bol, "People and Places: Computing China's Past"
- Jon Christensen, "Tooling up for Spatial History Projects"
- Charles van den Heuvel, "Visualizing Historical Evidence and Experience: Two Projects Around Early Modern Manuscript Maps and an Experimental e-Humanities Lab"
- Sorin Matei, "Visible Past: Where Information Searches for You"
- Discussion
11:30am: Lunch
- Mano Marks, "Using Google Geo Technologies to Visualize Spatially Located Data"
1:00pm: Session 5
- Hadley Wickham, "Visualizing Data with R"
- Carsten Ronsdorf, "Integration of Historic Data Fragments on the Basis of CityGML"
- Bill Ferster, "The Emancipation of Data: A Call to Action"
- Discussion
2:30pm: Afternoon break
3:00pm: Andrew Torget and James Wilson: Wrap-up discussion
5:00pm: Shuttle picks up to go back to hotel
March-May, 2009: Prototype experiments conducted at the University of Richmond and James Madison University, testing ideas from Workshop.
June 2009: White paper made available, which will document current visualizations standards and capabilities, best practices, results of the experiments, and outline priorities and recommendations for future development.
