AHC 2005
Wednesday, September 14
11.00 - 13.30 Registration - Location: Felix Meritis
13.30 - 15.30 Welcome - Keynote
15.30 - 17.00 Parallel Sessions 1
1. GIS I - Building a Historical GIS I - Ian Gegory
• L Silveira--Sigma (Geographic Information System and Data Modelling Applied to Portuguese History).
A balance of its development and results
• P Ell--Developing a historical GIS for Ireland
• D. Zeldenrust – DIVENA – Field names and GIS
2. Electronic Textual Editing – Karina van Dalen
• P Boot--EDITOR: Scholarly Annotation of Text Editions
• A Ivanovs & A Varfolomeyev--Editing and Exploratory Analysis of Medieval Documents by Means of
XML Technologies (the Case of the Documentary Source Complex "Moscowitica Ruthenica")
• M Perstling--Layers and Dimensions. The Representation of Complex Structured Sources
3. Digitization Strategies I - George Welling
• B Burkard--Collaborative Work in the creation of digital cultural heritage resources
• P Doorenbosch--Structures in the chaos: what can computer science and cultural heritage mean to
each other?
• M Schnoepf--The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science and its digital resources
Thursday, September 15
09.00 - 10.30 Parallel Sessions 2
1. Large Cross-Sectional, Nominative Databases in Historical Research - Gunnar Thorvaldsen
• HJ Marker--Family structure in Denmark 1801
• M Woollard--The North Atlantic Population Project data sets. (Provisional title).
• M Erikstad & Trygve Andersen--Making a national census coding system internationally comparable
• M van Leeuwen & I Maas--HISCLASS: A Historical International Social Class Scheme for occupational
titles in the past
2. Images & Multimedia - Jaap vd Herik
• I Berezhnoy & E Postma & J vd Herik--From Artificial Intelligence to Art Intelligence
• N Bergboer & E Postma & J vd Herik--Detecting visual objects in the cultural heritage
• E van den Broek--Content-Based Artist Identification
• P Melms--Reconstructing lost spaces. Affordably, that is.
3. Text Analysis and Retrieval I - Edward Vanhoutte
• P Juola--Language chance and historical inquiry
• N Camarinhas--The Crown's Judges. The judicial profession in ancient regime Portugal
• E Khudobko--The computerized analysis of the State Duma debates: alternatives
of the State budget of Russia
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Parallel Sessions 3
1. New Approaches to History and Computing I - Manfred Thaller
• D Anderson & R Healey--Broadening the Scope of Electronic Book Publishing : a Comparison of
Commercial and Public Domain Software Approaches to the Development of Database-Driven E-
Resources
• J Delve & R Healey--Using data warehousing for humanities teaching and research
• I Garskova--MA Programs in Historical Computing: Towards a Standard (the Experience of Russian and
CIS Universities)
2. GIS II - Spatial History Using GIS - Andreas Kunz
• D Bodenhammer--Religious Studies and Historical GIS
• S Gruber--Occupational migration in Albania in the beginning of the 20th century
3. Digitization Projects I - Eve Andersson
• G Pieken--Jewish Life in Germany from 1914 to 2004
• N Floor Clausen--Principles, definitions and methods for digitising church records
• G Lauzon--The Old Montréal Heritage Inventories database: Toward a renewed collective memory
• P Nieuwenhuizen--Infrastructure as cultural heritage: necessity for careful management of historical
data
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 15.00 Keynote address
15.00 - 15.30 Coffee Break
15.30 - 17.00 Parallel Sessions 4
1. GIS III - Using GIS for Urban History – Luis Silveira
• R Abrahart--The Cartographic Methods and Mishaps of Henry Mayhew in 1861
• H Laloli--Social segregation and social mobility in Amsterdam 1850-1940
• D Alves--Using a GIS to reconstruct the nineteenth century Lisbon parishes
• R Bradshaw--Urban Historical IS
2. Exploring Ontology Building for History and Humanities: a panel discussion - Matthew Woollard
3. Qualitative & Quantitative Data Analysis - Onno Boonstra
• H Berger--Microhistory and quantitative data analysis
• L Borodkin--Detecting Chaos in Historical Time Series
• T Izmestieva--Application of Microsoft Excel in Correction and Unification Data of Source
• S. Kleine Staarman--Migrating over century-old paths
Friday, September 16
09.00 - 10.30 Parallel Sessions 5
1. New Approaches to History and Computing II - Manfred Thaller
• R van Horik--Long-term access to digital data archives by means of persistent identifiers, preservation
repositories and ?Open Access?.
• S Petty--(Cyber)Race Identities: Transnational Histories in Roshini Kempadoos Ghosting
• T Weller--A new approach: The arrival of Informational History
• R Brunnhofer & I Kropac--Digital Archives in a Virtual World
2. XML Technologies - Rutger Kramer
• T van den Broek--Backing the Right Horse: Benchmarking XML Editors for Text-Encoding
• K Boughida--Cataloguing Cultural Objects (CCO): A New XML Schema for the Cultural Heritage
Community
• L Breure--PROGENETOR: An Editorial Tool For Reuse of XML Content
• F Wiering--Creating an XML vocabulary for encoding lute music
3. Digitization Projects II - Patricia Alkhoven
• A Verheusen--National Digital Repository for digitised images
• Z Wang-- Online Newspapers Archiving Program in China
• E Zlobin & V Afiani--Main directions of computerization of scientific working in the Archive of the
Russian Academy of Science
• Osamu Ohara--Digital Images in the Study of Medieval Documents
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 - 12.30 Parallel Sessions 6
1. GIS IV - Building a Historical GIS II - Roy Bradshaw
• I Gregory--Creating historical Geographical Information Systems
• A Kunz & S Marburg--Historical GIS and the Visualization of Dynastic Rule: The German Case in the
19th Century
• H Tschauner & V Siveroni--On the ground and '6 feet under': mobile GIS and photogrammetric
approaches to building archaeological spatial databases in the field
2. Digitization Strategies II – Leen Breure
• P Alkhoven--Digitizing Cultural Heritage Collections: The importance of training
• M Thaller--Cultural Heritage v. Historical Research: Requirements for cooperation
• R Punzalan--"Archiving" the Archives: Managing Image Collections and Photo Digitization at a
University Museum
3. Text Analysis and Retrieval II – Semantics and Ontologies - Seamus Ross
• T Spaan--Combining thesauri and ontologies for integrated disclosure of arts libraries and collections:
theory and practice of computer-aided development
• I Zandhuis--Towards a Genealogical Ontology for the Semantic Web
• F de Jong--Temporal language models for the disclosure of historical text
• V Mirzaee--Computational Representation of Semantics in Historical Documents
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 15.00 Posters
15.00 - 15.30 Coffee Break
15.30 - 17.00 Parallel Sessions 7
1. Forum discussion: Towards an International Research Agenda for Historical Information Science - Peter Doorn, Seamus Ross, Manfred Thaller
2. Networks - Ingo Kropac
• T Burrows--Reinventing the Humanities in a Networked Environment: the Australian Network for Early
European Research
• L Hughes & M Greengrass--The UK's AHRB ICT Methods Network: support for advanced
methodologies
• S Kornienko & D Gagarina--The Information System "Network of scientific concepts"
• P Wouters--The Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences
3. VGI ICT Innovation Award 2005 - Onno Boonstra
Saturday, September 17
09.30 - 11.00 Parallel Sessions 8
1. GIS V - Historical Atlases and Beyond - David Bodenhamer
• J Burgess-- Mapping the History of a Victorian Commercial District: Montréal and its warehouses, 1850-
1880.
• E Glavatskaya--Indigenous peoples of the Northwestern Siberia: ethnohistorical mapping
• R Lopes--Historical geographic data dissemination through the web: the site Atlas and future
developments towards its interoperability.
2. Text Analysis and Retrieval III - Bruno de Wever
• G Mozhaeva--Russian historiography of second half XVIII century: experience of the linguistic analysis
• K Patterson--The Victorian Women Writers’ Letters Project: A New Approach to Epistolary Analysis
• A Kobrinkskiy--Structural and comparative analysis of speeches of the leading politicians of Russia
(content-analysis by means of the TACT programme)
• J Broadway--The Early Letters of the Royal Society 1657-1741: managing diversity
3. Virtual Libraries - Matthew Woollard
• M Schnoepf--Travelling Science (Proyecto Humboldt)
• G Pieken--The Digital Facsimile
• M Voegler--Virtual Libraries and Thematic Gateways in German History. Strategies and Perspectives
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 - 13.00 Parallel Sessions 9
1. Large Longitudinal, Nominative Databases in Historical Research - Gunnar Thorvaldsen
• S Fogelvik--Providing the research community with historical demographic data : strategies adopted by
Stockholm City Archives
• K Mandemakers--Standards data-output of the Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN)
• LG Carlsson--Record linkage across parish borders - Methods and Quality
2. Portals & Gateways – René van Horik
• M Kröll--Field Study of German Web-Based Subject Gateways on Contemporary History
• S Pasqualis--From the Roman eagle to E.A.G.L.E.: harvesting the web for ancient epigraphy
• T Valetov--Museums on the Web: a Brief Overview
3. Text Analysis and Retrieval IV – Joris van Zundert
• R Hoekstra--Integrating text and structured access to digital historical sources
• M Heller--Modern Information Retrieval Technology for Historical Documents
• R Ordelman & D van Leeuwen--Robust audio indexing for Dutch spoken-word collections
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch and Conference Wrap up
14.00 - 18.00 Post Conference Tour
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