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Digitising Patterns of Power
New Project in Digital Humanities
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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
Dear Colleagues,
The goal of this newsletter is to inform you on the content, the state and the evolution of the project Digitising Patterns of Power (DPP): Peripherical Mountains in the Medieval World. DPP has started in January 2015, will last for four years and is funded within the programme “Digital Humanities: Langzeitprojekte zum kulturellen Erbe” of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). It is hosted at the Institute for Medieval Research of the ÖAW and unites various experts from the fields of Medieval History, Byzantine Studies, Historical Geography, Geography, Cartography, Geographical Information Science (GISc) and Software Engineering based on a cooperation with the Department of Geography and Regional Research of the University of Vienna.
The project DPP focuses on the depiction and analysis of space and place in medieval written sources, of the interaction between built and natural environment, of appropriation of space and of the emergence of new political, religious and economic structures of power. DPP compares three regions of the medieval world: the Eastern Alps (6th-12th cent.), the historical region of Macedonia (12th-14th cent.) and historical Southern Armenia (5th-11th cent.). With tools deriving from Digital Humanities, historical and archaeological data will be digitised, combined, geo-referenced and integrated into a data base (using the OpenAtlas-system, which was enhanced by Stefan Eichert, Katharina Winckler and Alexander Watzinger for the projects “The Eastern Alps revisited” and “Mapping Medieval Conflict – MEDCON” and will be even more enriched for DPP with historical geographical features).
To communicate the results of the spatial analyses as well as the historical and archaeological data and the spatial relations thereof, DPP (Team Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna) aims to create an interactive and dynamic map-based online application. It will be an integral part of the DPP project and provide a framework for various aspects of the project.
Our digital newsletter will be published quaterly and keep you informed on our activities and results. Moreover, please feel free to consult our web page at www.dpp.oeaw.ac.at.
Yours sincerely,
the DPP team
...learn more about the project on our website
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Team Institute for Medieval Research
Austrian Academy of Sciences
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Popovic Mihailo
Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dr. phil. (project leader of DPP); His research interests include amongst others Historical Geography and Cartography of the Mediterranean, History and Culture of South Eastern Europe (7th-16th Centuries), Byzantine History, Digital Humanities and Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS).
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Winckler Katharina
Dr. phil. in Medieval History, is researcher at the Institute of Medieval Research / Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her main research fields are early medieval conceptions, organisation and appropriation of space, mainly in the Alps.
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Stefan Eichert
Dr. phil. Stefan Eichert, is research and teaching assistant at the University of Vienna and at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His main research fields are early medieval history and archaeology and computer applications in archaeology and digital humanities.
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Johannes Preiser-Kapeller
Dr. phil. in Byzantine Studies at the University of Vienna, is researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Medieval Research, Division of Byzantine Research.
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Team Department of Geography and Regional Research
University of Vienna
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Karel Kriz
Professor for Cartography and Geoinformation Science at the University of Vienna, Austria. Main areas of research lie in cartographic design, web-based cartography, GIScience and thematic aspects of mountain cartography.
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Alexander Pucher
Dr. Alexander Pucher is a scientist and lecturer at the University of Vienna, Department of Geography and Regional Research. His major interests lie in usability issues of cartographic projects, Web-mapping and recent developments in geographic information science.
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Markus Breier
Mag. rer. nat Markus Breier, is project assistant and lecturer at the University of Vienna at the Department of Geography and Regional Research. His main research field is the application of geographical information systems in historical research.
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Daniel Nell
Graduate of Geography and Regional Research (Cartography and Geoinformation Sciences) at the University of Vienna. He is currently working as a project assistant at the Department of Geography and Regional Research.
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Student Assistants
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David Schmid
Student of history and slavonic studies. Research interests include Medieval history, military and violence history, history and culture of the Byzantine Empire, former Yugoslavia and Russia, Eastern European history, austro-slavonic relationships and diplomacy.
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Bernhard Koschicek
BSc. in Computer Sciences, student of Computer Sciences at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien and student of history at University of Vienna. Research interests include Computer Security, Digital preservation, medieval and military history.
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