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- Title
STREAM (Spatiotemporal Research Infrastructure for Early Modern Brabant and Flanders): Sources, Data and Methods.
- Authors
Devos, Isabelle; Wiedemann, Torsten; Demey, Ruben; Vrielinck, Sven; Lambrecht, Thijs; De Maeyer, Philippe; Ranson, Elien; Van den Berghe, Michiel; Plettinck, Glenn; Winter, Anne
- Abstract
This article presents the technical characteristics of the Belgian STREAM-project (2015–2019). The goal of STREAM is to facilitate and innovate historical research into local and regional processes through the development of a spatiotemporal infrastructure for early modern Brabant and Flanders, two of the most urbanized and developed areas of pre-industrial Europe. To this end, STREAM systematically collects a range of key data from a diversity of historical sources to provide a geographically comprehensive and long-run quantitative and spatial account of early modern society at the local level (parishes, villages, towns) regarding territory, transport, demography, agriculture, industry and trade, related to the development of a tailored historical geographical information system (GIS) based on the well-known Ferraris map (1770–1778). This article discusses the possibilities and pitfalls of the data collection and the construction of a spatial infrastructure for the pre-statistical era.
- Subjects
FLEMISH history; DEMOGRAPHY; AGRICULTURE; GEOGRAPHIC information systems; TRANSPORTATION
- Publication
International Journal of Humanities & Arts Computing: A Journal of Digital Humanities, 2018, Vol 12, Issue 2, p102
- ISSN
1753-8548
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/ijhac.2018.0217