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DESCRIPTION:Research into physical\, ecological and socio-economic changes 
 that have occurred across landscapes relies on multi-disciplinary skills a
 nd information from a variety of sources including local knowledge. Althou
 gh landscape history is an academic field backed by research groups and pr
 ofessorships in several universities\, much of the action takes place in v
 oluntary groups\, composed of citizen scientists and local historians oper
 ating within more-or-less formalised communities of practice. Example loca
 l history and naturalist groups include the now-disbanded Plinian Society\
 , founded in 1823 in Edinburgh and whose membership included Charles Darwi
 n\, and the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club founded in Herefordshire in 1
 851\, which still runs to this day.\n\nA wide variety of established metho
 ds are available to landscape historians\, ranging from desk-based collect
 ion\, translation and synthesis of information from historic archives to t
 he field-based observation of biodiversity and methods requiring scientifi
 c equipment including dendrochronology\, ground-penetrating radar\, and ra
 diocarbon dating. The use of geographic datasets and methods such as remot
 e sensing\, georectification and digitisation of historic maps\, and commu
 nication of results through interactive maps are relatively new developmen
 ts that offer great potential to empower many current and potential landsc
 ape historians of every stripe.\n\nHowever\, the knowledge and skills need
 ed to collect\, work with\, and gain insights from geographic datasets for
  landscape history are few and far between\, with expertise concentrated a
 mong a few people working at the intersection between landscape history an
 d the broadly defined field of geocomputation. David Lovelace (1948–2026
 ) worked at this intersection and throughout his 30+-year career he collec
 ted more than 2\,000 Gigabytes worth of data on the landscape history of H
 erefordshire. An advocate of empowering people through technology\, he was
  a strong proponent of free and open source software for geographic applic
 ations (FOSS4G).\n\nThis talk will discuss the geographic research methods
  that David developed\, with a focus on open tools he used and with refere
 nce to the nascent David Lovelace Archive (hosted at bosci.net)\, which pr
 ovides an example of how new technologies can help get research out of dus
 ty desks and into the wider world for the greater good.
DTSTAMP:20260910T225424Z
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SUMMARY:FOSS for Landscape History: from georectifying ancient maps to shar
 ing the results - Robin Lovelace
URL:https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2026/talk/PSFUK3/
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