Publication details
Geographic Information System of Traditional Folk Culture (1750–1900) – an effective way to make the results of ethnological research accessible
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Národopisná revue |
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| Web | http://revue.nulk.cz/pdf/r5-2015.pdf |
| Field | Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology |
| Keywords | ethnocartography; geography information system; ethnology; traditional folk culture; Moravia |
| Description | The Geographic Information System of Traditional Folk Culture (1750–1900) (hereinafter referred to as GISTraLIK) is based on intersecting maps with information from folk culture which are defined by places (Moravia) and by time (years 1750–1900). The project´s major outcome in the form of an online accessible geographic information system offers its users (amateurs and professionals) an information platform comprising knowledge about the documented expressions of tangible and intangible folk culture as well as about the rate of their procession hitherto – always with ties a particular settlement location or geographic units defined in different ways (e.g. court district, parish, domain, ethnographic area etc.). Tools of the geographic information system allow to depict information relating to a location or territory, and to generate the interconnected data in an advanced system. The results can be displayed as a text and a cartographic visualisation. |