The Department of History, the Graduate History Students Association, and the DECIMA project are pleased to present a workshop on digital mapping and its application in Renaissance Florence.
- Public Launch and demonstration of DECIMA (Digitally Encoded Census Information Mapping Archive) – an interactive digital map of 16th Florence, using data from the 1561-62 census geo-referenced to the 1584 aerial view of Florence by Stefano Bonsignori. Short explanatory papers/demonstrations by DECIMA research team members: Nicholas Terpstra, Colin Rose, Daniel Jamison, Leah Faibisoff, Eduardo Fabbro
- Nicholas Eckstein (University of Sydney)  Tracing the Plague through the Streets of Florence
- Niall Atkinson (University of Chicago)  Mapping the Soundscape of Pre-modern Florence
- Francesca Trivellato (Yale University) A Relational Database for the Business History of Early Modern Tuscany
A workshop-presentation-discussion of digital mapping projects being developed by students and faculty at the University of Toronto using Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
- Byron Moldofsky and Sally-Beth MacLean  (U of Toronto) REED Patrons and Performances Online Mapping Renewal Project.  The focus will be on the use of Openlayers in Drupal to renew the  ArcIMS/Coldfusion version created for REED’s first research and educational website over 10 years ago.
- William Robbins & John Geck, Mapping the Canterbury Tales  An example of using maps of literary topographies in the classroom, and helping students create their own mapping tools, employing GIS as well.
- Marcel Fortin (U of Toronto) The Ontario Historical County Maps Project :Â an Open Source Web Mapping Toolkit for Historians.
This workshop will be the culminating session for a series of training sessions held through the Winter semester.
January 28:Â Introduction to GIS for Historians
February 25:Â GIS for Historians: Basemaps and Geo-referencing
March 25:Â GIS for Historians: Datasets and Interactive Mapping
This workshop is co-sponsored by
