Rygalova Mariya V.,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Altai State Institute of Culture, Barnaul, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Bryukhanova Elena A.,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Information Technologies in Studying Historical Topography of West Siberian Cities at the Turn of the 19th–20th Centuries
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2018-2-4
The article describes the use of information technologies in a historical study of social topography of Tobolsk Governorship cities at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries on the basis of the First General Population Census of the Russian Empire held in 1897. Current practice of using information technologies to study various historical spatiotemporal events is reasonable and successful. Experience of foreign historians offers a positive example in this sense. The main aspect related to the historical study of urban social topography in foreign projects is the creation of interactive maps, online accessible resources and web-GIS with free information. Our current project aims at creating a GIS covering social topography of Tobolsk Governorship cities based on the use of database and GIS technologies, digitization of historical sources, original census papers in particular. The census papers contain demographic and socio-economic data that are geographically fixed (locating the householders’ residences and buildings). The second stage is the search for and selection of the cartographic base of the project. At that, the authors had to look for historical city plans and correlate them with modern maps. The authors identify city objects and dwellings on historical and modern maps on the basis of census papers database, descriptive parts of city plans and extra sources. Each object/building is accompanied by two information blocks: household’s description and data on dwellers. The results will be presented on the free platform (NextGISWeb) in the form of web-GIS with an interactive map reconstructing the space of Tobolsk Governorship cities at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries. The use of GIS technologies provides for carrying out a full-function spatial analysis accompanied by city’s social space reconstruction and consideration of demographic, social and economic factors and identification of their influence on the displacement of different social groups. Free GIS access makes the results of the study more open to historians and anyone interested in the history of Siberian cities.
Publishing: 19/12/2018
How to cite: Rygalova M.V., Bryukhanova E.A. Information Technologies in Studying Historical Topography of West Siberian Cities at the Turn of the 19th–20th Centuries // Historical Courier, 2018, # 2. Article 4. [Available online:] http://istkurier.ru/data/2018/ISTKURIER-2018-2-04.pdf
Links: Issue 2 2018
Keywords: social space; 1897 census; historical GIS; web-GIS; Siberian cities