More than trees: The challenges of creating a geodatabase to capture the complexity of forest history
Péter Szabó|Silvie Suchánková|Lucie Křížová|Martin Kotačka|Martina Kvardová|Martin Macek|Jana Müllerová|Rudolf Brázdil
European forests have been copiously documented for centuries. However, forest-related archival sources were rarely utilised to their full potential, mainly because of the difficulties in producing compatible data from large amounts very different sources. Furthermore, analysing such larger areas high resolution was hardly possible prior emergence historical GIS. This paper presents geodatabase LONGWOOD project, which includes tens thousands pieces information on forest history 11th 20th century 3,567 townships eastern Czech Republic (c. 27,000 km2). The describes challenges we met, briefly summarizes results, evaluates database a worldwide context and introduces directions future research.
Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History