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In this presentation Dr. Yano will detail the utility, functionality, and process of developing the web application Japanese Old Maps Online (Figure 1). Currently, we are working on extending this online system in order to build a GIS based Japanese gazetteer, which is an interactive place name dictionary that can search geospatial information from all regions of Japan, from past historical designations to current place names and addresses, as well as identify longitude and latitude map representations. Area statistics and historical data used in the humanities and social sciences often include place names and addresses, which are geospatial information, in addition to changes in names over time. By identifying a place by its name or address and visualizing various phenomena that occurred there in the past on a map, the spatial location of these phenomena can be clarified, and by superimposing them on other maps, new knowledge in fields such as literature, history, sociology and economics, which have not sufficiently incorporated a spatial perspective, can be discovered. The presenter will describe the “map-Kurator” application which conducts automatic extraction of place names from old topographic maps of Japan (Figure 2.). New knowledge is expected to be discovered with this application, and the database will serve as the basis for the GIS based Japanese gazetteer.
In recent years, the field of Digital Humanities (DH) has expanded, and new knowledge is being discovered from large-scale digitized academic data through data-driven machine analysis, which could not be achieved through traditional humanities research conducted by human hands. This talk will also describe how Japanese Old Maps Online aims to add knowledge in the humanities and social sciences by utilizing geospatial analysis.
Related websites
ARC Map Portal Database | Japanese Map Warper | Japanese Old Maps Online | Maplat for Japanese Old Maps
Speaker Bio:
Keiji Yano (B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. (D.Sc.)) has been Professor of Human Geography and Geographic Information Science at the Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan since April 2002. Before joining Ritsumeikan in 1992, he was at the Tokyo Metropolitan University as Assistant Professor of Geography, where he also earned his Master and PhD degrees in Geography. His professional roles include being Member of Science Council of Japan, The president of the Human Geographical Society of Japan, the Councilor of the Association of Japanese Geographers, and the past president of GIS Association of Japan.
His research interests are grouped around the use of Geographical Information Systems and quantitative methods in urban analysis. This includes information integration within GIS, geodemographics, geodesign, spatial interaction models, urban modelling, virtual cities, digital humanities, history of quantitative geography, and history of GIS. Home website: https://keijiyanocom.wordpress.com/home/ (including Researcher's Database, CiNii, CiNii Book, Google Scholar, Kaken)
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Figure 1. Japanese Old Maps Online
Figure 2. An example of automatic extraction of place names from old topographic maps of Japan by "map-Kurator“.