pubs

Publications and Presentations

Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers
---- Edited by: Merrick Lex Berman, Ruth Mostern, and Humphrey Southall
---- Indiana Univ Press, Aug, 2016
---- Links: book

Persistence or Transience? Tracking the evolution of places over time with historical Geographic Information Systems [GIS]
---- Author: Merrick Lex Berman
---- Venue: Hist2006 - Geschichte im Netz Conference, Berlin, Feb 2006
---- Links: pdf

Boundaries or Networks in Historical GIS: Concepts of Measuring Space and Administrative Geography in Chinese History
---- Author: Merrick Lex Berman
---- Venue: Historical Geography, Vol33, Special Issue: Emerging Trends in Historical GIS, Baton Rouge, 2005
---- Links: pdf

Linked Places In the Context of Library Metadata
---- Author: Merrick Lex Berman
---- Venue: Harvard Library: Linked Data Discussion Group, Cambridge, Nov 10th, 2016
---- Links: pdf

Historical Materials and Geographic Information Systems for Digital Humanities Projects
---- Author: Merrick Lex Berman
---- Venue: Advancing Digital Scholarship in Japanese Studies, Cambridge, Nov 6th, 2015
---- Links: pdf - webmap example

A Temporal Gazetteer for Chinese History
---- Author: Merrick Lex Berman
---- Venue: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Apr 28th, 2015
---- Links: pdf

Moving Historical Geodata to the Web (Meeting Notes)
---- Author: Merrick Lex Berman
---- Venue: NYPL Workshop, sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Nov 5th - 7th, 2014
---- Links: report

Skinner Data Archive At Harvard
---- Author: Merrick Lex Berman
---- Venue: G.W. Skinner Festschrift Planning Meeting, Univ of Washington, Aug 11, 2014
---- Links: pdf

New Discovery Tools for Digital Humanities and Spatial Data
---- Author: Merrick Lex Berman
---- Venue: MIT Information Science Brown Bag Lunch Seminar, MIT E25, Jul 16, 2014
---- Links: pdf

China Air Pollution Study Based on Volunteer Monitoring Stations
---- Author: Merrick Lex Berman, Fei Carnes, Zhenyang Hua
---- Venue: ABCD GIS seminar, Cambridge MA, Jun 18th, 2014
---- Links: pdf - data archive

Ming Dynasty Courier Routes
---- Author: Merrick Lex Berman
---- Venue: ABCD GIS Seminar, Cambridge MA, June 18th, 2014
---- Links: pdf - webmap - data archive

Origins and Development of the China Historical GIS
---- Author: Merrick Lex Berman
---- Venue: Pelagios 3 Gazetteer Technical Workshop, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYC, Sep 12th, 2013
---- Links: pdf

Modeling Time, Dates, and Periods for Historical Geographic Data
---- Author: Merrick Lex Berman
---- Venue: Issues in Spatio-Temporal Technologies Panel Digital Humanties 2013, Lincoln NE, 19 Jul 2013
---- Links: pdf

WorldMap and Chinamap (in Chinese)
---- Author: Merrick Lex Berman
---- Venue: CGA Seminar Series, Application of GIS in China Research (in Chinese), 27 Jun 2013
---- Links: pdf

Asian Geodata at Harvard
---- Author: Merrick Lex Berman
---- Venue: Workshop on Computational Tools and Digital Resources for Chinese History and Literatrue, AAS San Diego, 23 Mar 2013
---- Links: pdf

Historical Gazetteer Development and Integration
---- Author: Merrick Lex Berman and Johan Ã…hlfeldt
---- Venue: Working Digitally with Historical Maps AAG NYC, Feb 2012
---- Links: revised 2014

On historical gazetteers
---- Author: Humphrey Southall, Ruth Mostern and Merrick Lex Berman
---- Venue: International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 5.2(2011)127-145
---- Links: article

Temporal Referencing for Historical Gazetteers
---- Author: Merrick Lex Berman
---- Venue: AAG Annual Meeting, Washington DC, April 2010
---- Links: pdf

Spatio-temporal Visualization using GeoTime Software
---- Author: Merrick Lex Berman
---- Venue: Evaluation report, Harvard, Dec 2009
---- Links: pdf

Modeling and Visualizing Historical GIS Data
---- Author: Merrick Lex Berman
---- Venue: Spatio-Temporal Workshop, Harvard University, Apr 2009
---- Links: pdf

Georeferencing Historical Placenames and Tracking Changes Over Time
---- Author: Merrick Lex Berman
---- Venue: Georeferencing Workshop, Harvard University, Mar 2008
---- Links: pdf

Modeling Spatio-Temporal Networks with CHGIS
---- Author: Merrick Lex Berman
---- Venue: Presented at 2nd International Workshop on Monies, Markets, and Finance in China and East Asia, 1600-1900, Ruhr-University Bochum, Oct 2007
---- Links: paper - slides - animation demo

Key Issues in Compiling a Digital Gazetteer for China's Historical Religious Sites
---- Author: Merrick Lex Berman
---- Venue: ECAI Congress on Cultural Atlases, Berkeley, May 2004
---- Links: pdf

Developing Historical GIS for Japan
---- Author: Merrick Lex Berman
---- Venue: AAS - CEAL Japan, San Diego, March 2004
---- Links: pdf - sample maps

Semantic Interoperability and Cultural Specificity: Examples from Chinese, Japanese, Mongolian, Uighur
---- Author: Merrick Lex Berman
---- Venue: SSHA, Baltimore, November 2003
---- Links: pdf

Measuring Space and Fuzzy Boundaries in Chinese History
---- Author: Merrick Lex Berman
---- Venue: SSHA St. Louis, October 2002
---- Links: pdf

Multilingual Feature Classification Index for China and Japan
---- Author: Merrick Lex Berman
---- Venue: PNC-ECAI Osaka, September 2002
---- Links: pdf

Integrating CHGIS with other Gazetteer Standards
---- Author: Merrick Lex Berman
---- Venue: PNC-ECAI Guadalajara, December 2001
---- Links: pdf

Gazetteer Development for CHGIS
---- Author: Merrick Lex Berman
---- Venue: SSHA Chicago, October 2001
---- Links: pdf