DTU skills training ‘GIS-analysis, Mapping & Cartography’

Today historians, geographers and social scientists and like have at their fingertips a myriad of digital resources (digital born or digitised). They may be formal or informal datasets  open  for public use or held behind closed doors, but common to all is the implicit or explicit geographical information that they contain. Thus, they are ripe for use in research. The geographic information within has the potential to enrich our knowledge about the relationship between people, places and time, bringing us closer to more meaningful and nuanced representations of place and locale. In this proposed introduction to Geographical information Science (GIS) we will critically discuss the emergence of the spatial methods within the humanities drawing upon a range of Geohumanities projects to illustrate our conceptual framework for spatial modelling  and build practical expertise with an Open Source GIS known as QGIS  working with a historical dataset.