The aim of this research is to build and open a historical GIS-based database centered on the historical city of Kyoto, where enormous geospatial information is accumulated, paying attention to the digital humanities that have been developed in recent years. It is to develop a new interdisciplinary "spatial humanities" by collaborating among researchers such as human geography, literature, history of performing arts, history of art, history of urban planning, and practice the creation of new knowledge by historical GIS.
In order to achieve this purpose, mainly in the historical city Kyoto, the research was promoted by setting and relating the following four themes; (1) digitization and construction of GIS of geospatial information, (2) development of spatial analysis method of historical GIS, (3) development of historical GIS sharing method, and (4) promotion of research on digital humanities by historical GIS.
