Nous avons porte beaucoup d'interet ces dernieres annees aux applications pratiques des SIG h... more Nous avons porte beaucoup d'interet ces dernieres annees aux applications pratiques des SIG historiques (SIG-H ou HGIS), avec des avancees importantes aux niveaux de la methode, de la technique et de la theo- rie. Cet article presente un exemple de l'extraction et de l'analyse de base de donnees cartographiques historiques dans le cadre d'un SIG, en particulier celle d'une carte Cassini produite en 1759 pour le sud de la Bourgogne. Nous integrons des donnees cartographiques numerisees a des documents historiques, et nous nous appuyons egalement sur l'histoire orale pour reconstituer le peuplement, l'utilisation des terres et de l'eau sur une periode de 250 ans. Les donnees historiques des cartes SIG sont analysees puis comparees avec les informations provenant des impots et redevances historiques, d'anciens registres cadastraux, de rapports agricoles et d'entretiens ethnographiques modernes. Notre etude sur le terrain est centree autour d'une ecologie historique appliquee, de l'histoire du paysage et de la theorie de la resilience, en cherchant a comprendre les interconnexions complexes entre paysages, cultures et populations au fil du temps.
Abstract This interdisciplinary research project investigates changing patterns of water use in r... more Abstract This interdisciplinary research project investigates changing patterns of water use in rural Burgundy, France over a 250-year timeframe. This rural landscape is undergoing rapid and major changes, partly driven by European Union policies that govern the environmental impacts of human activities. These policies reflect the power of governments to directly influence local landscapes, and many traditional water mills and ponds have disappeared while others have been repurposed. We seek to document these endangered features on the landscape and analyze their changing function. An integrated research design incorporating humanities, social sciences, and Earth sciences seeks to illuminate the factors involved in the changing use of local water resources, including mills and ponds. Advanced techniques including geographic information systems and geochemical analysis are combined with historical research including analysis of historical documents, cadastral records and oral history interviews of current land owners and farmers.
This paper presents an improved method for spatially accurate extraction of detailed features fro... more This paper presents an improved method for spatially accurate extraction of detailed features from historical cartographic sources for use in time series analysis in GIS. This method uses Adobe Photoshop to extract features from a series of maps in the southern Burgundy region of France, with dates ranging from 1759 to 2002. The method is defined and the benefits of
An essential aspect of reconstructing past land use is analyzing the social, political and econom... more An essential aspect of reconstructing past land use is analyzing the social, political and economic factors that drive land-use decisions. Finding this kind of historical data, especially for early periods, can be difficult. Records pertaining to both land use and management are often sparse and inconsistent, and when one is researching at the scale of individual farms and land parcels, these problems are amplified. Parish and civil records of birth, marriages and death provide a type of consistent, year-to-year, source of data that has been seldom used in reconstructions of land-use change. In France these parish records contain, in addition to family relationships, information on the residence, occupation and wider social ties of not only the primary individuals named in the birth, marriage and death records, but also for the many others present as godparents, witnesses and mourners. This information can be invaluable for reconstructing past land use. Family reconstitution, the method used by historical demographers to reconstruct the genealogy of entire parishes or villages, is the method here used to identify farm families, reconstruct the greater social network, and extract occupational/land-use data. Readily available and inexpensive genealogy software such as Family Tree Maker can be used for family reconstitution and can be easily customized to accommodate tracing the larger social network, and to incorporate occupational and land use data.
Nous avons porte beaucoup d'interet ces dernieres annees aux applications pratiques des SIG h... more Nous avons porte beaucoup d'interet ces dernieres annees aux applications pratiques des SIG historiques (SIG-H ou HGIS), avec des avancees importantes aux niveaux de la methode, de la technique et de la theo- rie. Cet article presente un exemple de l'extraction et de l'analyse de base de donnees cartographiques historiques dans le cadre d'un SIG, en particulier celle d'une carte Cassini produite en 1759 pour le sud de la Bourgogne. Nous integrons des donnees cartographiques numerisees a des documents historiques, et nous nous appuyons egalement sur l'histoire orale pour reconstituer le peuplement, l'utilisation des terres et de l'eau sur une periode de 250 ans. Les donnees historiques des cartes SIG sont analysees puis comparees avec les informations provenant des impots et redevances historiques, d'anciens registres cadastraux, de rapports agricoles et d'entretiens ethnographiques modernes. Notre etude sur le terrain est centree autour d'une ecologie historique appliquee, de l'histoire du paysage et de la theorie de la resilience, en cherchant a comprendre les interconnexions complexes entre paysages, cultures et populations au fil du temps.
Abstract This interdisciplinary research project investigates changing patterns of water use in r... more Abstract This interdisciplinary research project investigates changing patterns of water use in rural Burgundy, France over a 250-year timeframe. This rural landscape is undergoing rapid and major changes, partly driven by European Union policies that govern the environmental impacts of human activities. These policies reflect the power of governments to directly influence local landscapes, and many traditional water mills and ponds have disappeared while others have been repurposed. We seek to document these endangered features on the landscape and analyze their changing function. An integrated research design incorporating humanities, social sciences, and Earth sciences seeks to illuminate the factors involved in the changing use of local water resources, including mills and ponds. Advanced techniques including geographic information systems and geochemical analysis are combined with historical research including analysis of historical documents, cadastral records and oral history interviews of current land owners and farmers.
This paper presents an improved method for spatially accurate extraction of detailed features fro... more This paper presents an improved method for spatially accurate extraction of detailed features from historical cartographic sources for use in time series analysis in GIS. This method uses Adobe Photoshop to extract features from a series of maps in the southern Burgundy region of France, with dates ranging from 1759 to 2002. The method is defined and the benefits of
An essential aspect of reconstructing past land use is analyzing the social, political and econom... more An essential aspect of reconstructing past land use is analyzing the social, political and economic factors that drive land-use decisions. Finding this kind of historical data, especially for early periods, can be difficult. Records pertaining to both land use and management are often sparse and inconsistent, and when one is researching at the scale of individual farms and land parcels, these problems are amplified. Parish and civil records of birth, marriages and death provide a type of consistent, year-to-year, source of data that has been seldom used in reconstructions of land-use change. In France these parish records contain, in addition to family relationships, information on the residence, occupation and wider social ties of not only the primary individuals named in the birth, marriage and death records, but also for the many others present as godparents, witnesses and mourners. This information can be invaluable for reconstructing past land use. Family reconstitution, the method used by historical demographers to reconstruct the genealogy of entire parishes or villages, is the method here used to identify farm families, reconstruct the greater social network, and extract occupational/land-use data. Readily available and inexpensive genealogy software such as Family Tree Maker can be used for family reconstitution and can be easily customized to accommodate tracing the larger social network, and to incorporate occupational and land use data.
Uploads
Papers
drive land-use decisions. Finding this kind of historical data, especially for early periods, can be difficult.
Records pertaining to both land use and management are often sparse and inconsistent, and when one is
researching at the scale of individual farms and land parcels, these problems are amplified. Parish and civil
records of birth, marriages and death provide a type of consistent, year-to-year, source of data that has been
seldom used in reconstructions of land-use change. In France these parish records contain, in addition to
family relationships, information on the residence, occupation and wider social ties of not only the primary
individuals named in the birth, marriage and death records, but also for the many others present as
godparents, witnesses and mourners. This information can be invaluable for reconstructing past land use.
Family reconstitution, the method used by historical demographers to reconstruct the genealogy of entire
parishes or villages, is the method here used to identify farm families, reconstruct the greater social network,
and extract occupational/land-use data. Readily available and inexpensive genealogy software such as
Family Tree Maker can be used for family reconstitution and can be easily customized to accommodate
tracing the larger social network, and to incorporate occupational and land use data.
drive land-use decisions. Finding this kind of historical data, especially for early periods, can be difficult.
Records pertaining to both land use and management are often sparse and inconsistent, and when one is
researching at the scale of individual farms and land parcels, these problems are amplified. Parish and civil
records of birth, marriages and death provide a type of consistent, year-to-year, source of data that has been
seldom used in reconstructions of land-use change. In France these parish records contain, in addition to
family relationships, information on the residence, occupation and wider social ties of not only the primary
individuals named in the birth, marriage and death records, but also for the many others present as
godparents, witnesses and mourners. This information can be invaluable for reconstructing past land use.
Family reconstitution, the method used by historical demographers to reconstruct the genealogy of entire
parishes or villages, is the method here used to identify farm families, reconstruct the greater social network,
and extract occupational/land-use data. Readily available and inexpensive genealogy software such as
Family Tree Maker can be used for family reconstitution and can be easily customized to accommodate
tracing the larger social network, and to incorporate occupational and land use data.