Abstract:

An increasing number of historians and sociologists have theorized empires as a series of interlocking networks of social and political interactions. Less attention has been paid to how digital techniques can be deployed to study the structure of those networks, their geospatial context, or their visualization, especially in the construction of maps. Advances in digital gazetteers, social network analysis (SNA) software, and historical geographic information systems (HIGS) are fundamentally altering this paradigm, enabling the discovery, modeling, and visualization of complex geospatial networks. Through a study of the Hellenistic Attalid Kingdom in Anatolia (282–133 b. c. e.), this article demonstrates a digital methodology and analytical framework that enables any historical project to create a digital gazetteer of people, places, and events; use linked open data (LOD) enhance that gazetteer with data from other projects; and display the results as a dynamic geospatial network that can be used for research and pedagogy.

摘要：

越来越多的历史学家和社会学家将帝国理论化为一系列相互关联的社会和政治互动网络。很少有人关注如何部署数字技术来研究这些网络的结构、它们的地理空间背景或它们的可视化，尤其是在地图的构建中。数字地名录、社交网络分析 (SNA) 软件和历史地理信息系统 (HIGS) 的进步正在从根本上改变这种范式，使复杂地理空间网络的发现、建模和可视化成为可能。通过对安纳托利亚希腊化的 Attalid 王国（公元前 282-133 年）的研究，本文展示了一种数字方法论和分析框架，它使任何历史项目都能够创建人物、地点和事件的数字地名录；使用链接的开放数据 (LOD) 用来自其他项目的数据增强地名词典；并将结果显示为可用于研究和教学的动态地理空间网络。