CHGIS Data Model

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"Data Model for Historical GIS: CHGIS Time Series" Lex Berman, October 2003 (PDF)

Complete History of CHGIS Data Model Development - 2000-2002

Links to Other Spatio-Temporal GIS:
ongoing Great Britain Historical GIS - the first and foremost historical GIS project (HTML)
ongoing Historical GIS for 200 Years of Belgian Territorial Structures - Univ of Ghent (PDF)
ongoing Russian Historical administrative boundaries - Institute of Geography, Moscow (HTML)
ongoing National Historical GIS - a new and ambitious project to produce county level polygons for the United States(HTML)
ongoing TimeMap - the best available SpatioTemporal Data Browser (Univ of Sydney) (HTML)
ongoing MurMur - seeks to integrate spatio-temporal datase models with visualation tools (HTML)
ongoing Perceptory Univ of Laval - a spatio-temporal database and visualization tool (HTML)
2001 Modelling Change and Events in Dynamic Spatial Systems with Reference to Socio-Economic Units - solid introduction to spatial change processes (PDF)
Nov 2001 TRIPOD Spatio-Historical Object Model - spatio-temporal model and queries for historical objects (PDF)
Jun 2000 Mapping Europe's Historic Boundaries and Borders - a rogue's gallery of the major historical GIS researchers in Europe today (HTML)
Dec 1999 Temporal Support for Land Information Systems in Object-Oriented Modeling - an overview of spatio-temporal modeling in OOP(PDF)
Nov 1999 Spatio-Temporal Conceptual Models: Data Structures + Space + Time - one approach to spatio-temporal modeling (PDF)
Apr 1999 An Area Event System for Forest Managment History - a useful attempt to hack stand histories into ArcInfo (PDF)
1998 A Qualitative Representation of Evolving Spatial Entities in Two-Dimensional Topological Spaces - detailed look at the requirements for Spatio-Temporal modeling (HTML)
Apr 1991 Temporal Relations in GIS - an early look at problems in dealing with changing places over time (HTML)