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Geoinformatics and Crowdsourcing in Cultural Heritage: A Tool for Managing Historical Archives

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  • Paclíková, K.
  • Weinfurtner, A.
  • Vohnoutová, M.
  • Dorner, W.
  • Fesl, J.
  • Preus, M.
  • Dostálek, L.
  • Horníčková, K.

Abstract

Archives of historical photographs have a great potential for "geo- or spatial sciences", for they can provide highly relevant visual data on historical landscapes, populated places and settlement structures, including those now destroyed. Processing of these archives represents many challenges, among them the application of geoinformatic concepts and information technologies. The article presents the example of geo-referencing, crowdsourcing, and other computer-based technologies applied to the archival photographs of today-destroyed sites on the Czech – Bavarian border, where many villages, farm sites and monuments were destroyed in the 1950s or abandoned as a consequence of post-WWII development. In the situation of dramatically changing landscape and land use, historical photographs are an important source of documentation for both research and virtual reconstruction of disappeared places, landscape, and society.

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  • Paclíková, K. & Weinfurtner, A. & Vohnoutová, M. & Dorner, W. & Fesl, J. & Preus, M. & Dostálek, L. & Horníčková, K., 2018. "Geoinformatics and Crowdsourcing in Cultural Heritage: A Tool for Managing Historical Archives," AGRIS on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Economics and Management, vol. 10(2).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aolpei:276122
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.276122
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