Social features, Spatial features, Time features: An urban archaeological data model

Xavier Rodier (1) , Laure Saligny (2)

1 CITERES - Cités, Territoires, Environnement et Sociétés
2 MSH Dijon (MSHD) - Maison des Sciences de l'Homme de Dijon

The use of GIS to study the spatial evolution of pre-industrial cities over the "longue durée" requires rigorous formalisation of heterogeneous data from different sources into robust entities. An initial model using the HBDS (Hypergraph Based Data Structure) method enabled us to distinguish social and spatial features. In this paper, we develop a specific model for the temporal dimension. The definition of urban objects using social, spatial and temporal features enhances the study of urban dynamics and of change over the "longue durée".

Mots clés: archaeology; GIS; modelling; space; time; town; urban function

Domaines: Archéologie et Préhistoire; Géographie

Xavier Rodier, Laure Saligny. Social features, Spatial features, Time features: An urban archaeological data model. 35th International Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Apr 2007, Berlin, Germany. pp.1-8. ⟨halshs-00956185⟩