GIS of Traditional Folk Culture Andrea Kýnová, Jiří Kozel, Pavel Bohumel, Petr Kovács, Jitka Spurná kynova@ics.muni.cz Masaryk University, Institute of Computer Science Project introduction Geographical information system for traditional folk culture (1750 – 1900) Duration 2012 – 2015 Goals – Collect records about traditional folk culture in the Moravian country between years 1750– 1900 – Spatiotemporal analysis of acquired data – Simple access to acquired data Moravia Moravia is a historical country covering one third of the Czech Republic Who stands behind? Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic Project funding Masaryk University, Czech Republic – Department of European Ethnology Data acquisition, data analysis – Institute of Computer Science Database, GIS, web presentation Why is it important? To enable complex research on traditional folk culture in the Czech Republic – Long and rich history – Bearer of patriotism on national and regional level, especially in the past – Records about the traditional Czech folk culture have never been collected in one place before To help preserve cultural heritage Czech traditions Czech folk culture Data types Record 35,000 records – Mention about some custom, product, song, etc. – Linked with photographs and scans Source document – Published document Chronicle, book, article, map – Object Museum exhibit, building Data types Category – Tree structure of 1,200 categories e.g. Music -> Musical instrument -> Bagpipes Place – Municipality, parish, manor, legal district, or ethnological region Most of them are historical regions Time – Year or interval of years Data model Data collection Systematic study of old chronicles, magazines, museum exhibits, feasts, etc. Department of European Ethnology – Every interesting record is described and saved to the database Application for data collection & management – “Form-filling” application – .NET, Microsoft SQL Server Web presentation Search and show records – Filter by space, time, and category (keyword) – Fulltext search – Show attached documents Visualize number of records per locality Choropleth map Find historical places Searching records in DB filtering form number of records record Searching records in mapfiltering form locality type selection selected locality Filtering form locality selection fulltext search category selection time selection category treecategory tree time slidertime slider just records with attachments? Technological background Database – Microsoft SQL Server Server – ArcGIS Server Client – OpenLayers 3, Google Closure Library Interface – ArcGIS REST API Future development Adding new records – Up to 50,000 records in total Application improvements – Adding ethnological regions – User selectable base maps, incl. old maps – Faster data loading, especially in the map search Combination with old map Andrea Kýnová kynova@ics.muni.cz Masaryk University Institute of Computer Science