Between the next 12th and 13th December 2017, the 2nd International Course "La aplicación de los Sistemas de Información Geográfica (SIG) a la investigación en Humanidades" will be held at Sala Pragma (Servicios de Informática Campus de Cartuja), y the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts of the University of Granada (UGR, Spain).

The aim of this International Course is to make an approach to the use of new technologies in the research in medieval History and Art History. In this framework, during the first day there will be an introductive theoretical part to become familiar with the Geographical Information Systems (GIS). It will be followed by the exposition of several real applications of this methodology to the research in urban history, medieval written sources, heritage conservation and artistic exchanges. The teachers of the course are experts from French, Spanish and Portuguese research centres, who have applied to their own research this method in different ways.

During the second day, two practical sessions will be developed. In the first one, all participants will be proposed to apply the GIS tools to create a simple GIS project. They will explore the possibilities of this tool to create a basic database and some cartographical material. During the second session, we will help the participants to apply the GIS to their own research projects. Although there will be computers in the room, if any participant would like to bring his/her own computer, it will be necessary to install in advance the QGIS program and the complements OpenLayers Plugin, MMQGIS and QGIS2WEB following this link: www.qgis.org/es/site/forusers/download.html

Registration
Free registration | 20 vacancies available.
Registrations are open until 10 December, by email to: mmcobaledaugr.es; mmcobaledafcsh.unl.pt; iem.geralfcsh.unl.pt

PROGRAM
Tuesday, 12th December 2017
9h45 Opening Session
10h00 Antonio GARRIDO ALMONACID (UJAEN), Los Sistemas de Información Geográfica. Características y funcionamiento
12h00 Coffee-break
12h30 Jean PASSINI (LaDéHiS – CRH – EHESS, Paris), De las marcas de pedreros a las mezquitas: aplicaciones del SIG al urbanismo medieval y a la arquitectura
13h30 Dolores VILLALBA SOLA (IEM – FCSH/UNL, Lisboa), Los desafíos de las fuentes árabes en los Sistemas de Información Geográfica: el caso almohade
14h30 Lunch
16h30 Emilio MOLERO MELGAREJO (UGR), Infraestructuras de Datos Espaciales y Sistemas de Información Geográfica en la Catalogación del Patrimonio Fortificado de Tierra
17h30 Coffee-break
18h00 María MARCOS COBALEDA (IEM – FCSH/UNL, Lisboa), Intercambios artísticos en el Mediterráneo: los SIG para el análisis de la difusión del arte islámico medieval

Wednesday, 13th December 2017
10h00 Antonio GARRIDO ALMONACID (UJAEN), Prácticas con QGIS aplicadas a proyectos de investigación (I)
12h00 Coffee-break
12h30 Antonio GARRIDO ALMONACID (UJAEN), Prácticas con QGIS aplicadas a proyectos de investigación (II)
14h00 Lunch
16h00 Cómo aplicar los SIG a mi proyecto concreto de investigación
17h30 Final remarks