Historic maps are an important primary source which can be utilized in the reconstruction of envi... more Historic maps are an important primary source which can be utilized in the reconstruction of environmental variables of the pre-industrial landscape. However, methodological constraints have hitherto prevented large scale and systematic approaches. In this paper a novel methodology is presented, which documents the usefulness of the maps in the study of paleo-hydrology and thus serves a better understanding of the conditions for agricultural production under pre-drainage conditions. The methodology is developed based on eighteenth and nineteenth century maps from a 100 km2 study area in one stream catchment in East Jutland, Denmark. It combines information from two types of historic maps in order to correlate computed soil hydrology (wetness index) and recorded historic land-use. The calculated wetness indexes are derived from contour lines on topographic (military) maps (in Danish: Høje Maalebordsblade), whereas the spatial overlays are land-use classes from economic maps (in Danis...
Although considerations and experiments on the ase of computers have a relatively long tradition ... more Although considerations and experiments on the ase of computers have a relatively long tradition in Danish archaeology, no comprehensive scientific project has yet been carried through. The use of computers in archaeological science is reduced to storing and retrieval purposes (besides text-processing) and, until now, leaving the analytical potentials as almost unexploited. The level of Danish theoretical archaeology is the main reason for this situation. Generations of archaeologists educated before about 1970 were dominated by the cultural-history tradition, and their humanistic approach was by definition in contradiction to a 'hard science' like mathematics. So, computers were thought to be 'incompatible' with the archaeological theory of that time. Between World War II and about 1970 the introduction of precise definitions and measurements in archaeology, due to a strong positivistic influence, was supposed to change archaeology to a 'scientific' state, &...
The FAIR principle F4 states that (Meta)data are registered or indexed in a searchable resource. ... more The FAIR principle F4 states that (Meta)data are registered or indexed in a searchable resource. Such a searchable resource becomes a kind of exhibit window of the data in question, from which references to the metadata and data should be available. Metadata portals of this kind can be either discipline-specific or generic, covering a number of research areas and a multitude of data types, as they do not contain the actual data as such. In the context of EOSC, the EUDAT indexing and search service B2FIND constitutes such a resource, offering indexing of metadata from across disciplines and metadata formats.<br> <br> In a world where many data resources with their corresponding metadata have been created throughout several years, also before the FAIR principles were published, harvesting and exposing a multitude of data resources from various disciplines can be a challenge. In the context of EOSC, it is desirable to streamline this process as much as possible, even as no ...
... Endvidere tillod GIS-teknologien at foretage beregninger på fla-dedækkende temaer, hvorved ny... more ... Endvidere tillod GIS-teknologien at foretage beregninger på fla-dedækkende temaer, hvorved nye temaer kunne genereres. ... Kø-benhavn. Møller, Per Grau; Ejrnæs, Ras-mus; Höll, Andreas; Krogh, Lars & Madsen, Jesper (red.) (2002): Foranderlige landskaber. ...
Historic maps are an important primary source which can be utilized in the reconstruction of envi... more Historic maps are an important primary source which can be utilized in the reconstruction of environmental variables of the pre-industrial landscape. However, methodological constraints have hitherto prevented large scale and systematic approaches. In this paper a novel methodology is presented, which documents the usefulness of the maps in the study of paleo-hydrology and thus serves a better understanding of the conditions for agricultural production under pre-drainage conditions. The methodology is developed based on eighteenth and nineteenth century maps from a 100 km2 study area in one stream catchment in East Jutland, Denmark. It combines information from two types of historic maps in order to correlate computed soil hydrology (wetness index) and recorded historic land-use. The calculated wetness indexes are derived from contour lines on topographic (military) maps (in Danish: Høje Maalebordsblade), whereas the spatial overlays are land-use classes from economic maps (in Danis...
Although considerations and experiments on the ase of computers have a relatively long tradition ... more Although considerations and experiments on the ase of computers have a relatively long tradition in Danish archaeology, no comprehensive scientific project has yet been carried through. The use of computers in archaeological science is reduced to storing and retrieval purposes (besides text-processing) and, until now, leaving the analytical potentials as almost unexploited. The level of Danish theoretical archaeology is the main reason for this situation. Generations of archaeologists educated before about 1970 were dominated by the cultural-history tradition, and their humanistic approach was by definition in contradiction to a 'hard science' like mathematics. So, computers were thought to be 'incompatible' with the archaeological theory of that time. Between World War II and about 1970 the introduction of precise definitions and measurements in archaeology, due to a strong positivistic influence, was supposed to change archaeology to a 'scientific' state, &...
The FAIR principle F4 states that (Meta)data are registered or indexed in a searchable resource. ... more The FAIR principle F4 states that (Meta)data are registered or indexed in a searchable resource. Such a searchable resource becomes a kind of exhibit window of the data in question, from which references to the metadata and data should be available. Metadata portals of this kind can be either discipline-specific or generic, covering a number of research areas and a multitude of data types, as they do not contain the actual data as such. In the context of EOSC, the EUDAT indexing and search service B2FIND constitutes such a resource, offering indexing of metadata from across disciplines and metadata formats.<br> <br> In a world where many data resources with their corresponding metadata have been created throughout several years, also before the FAIR principles were published, harvesting and exposing a multitude of data resources from various disciplines can be a challenge. In the context of EOSC, it is desirable to streamline this process as much as possible, even as no ...
... Endvidere tillod GIS-teknologien at foretage beregninger på fla-dedækkende temaer, hvorved ny... more ... Endvidere tillod GIS-teknologien at foretage beregninger på fla-dedækkende temaer, hvorved nye temaer kunne genereres. ... Kø-benhavn. Møller, Per Grau; Ejrnæs, Ras-mus; Höll, Andreas; Krogh, Lars & Madsen, Jesper (red.) (2002): Foranderlige landskaber. ...
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