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Area Informatics – Concept and Status –

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Area studies are interdisciplinary science of humanities, natural and technological researches. Area informatics is a new information paradigm in area studies to integrate and analyze data from variety disciplines quantitatively and objectively. Spatiotemporal data gives a few quantitative attributes that are relatively easy to be derived from area studies’ data. The Humanities GIS research group (H-GIS) is a leading joint research group in Japan to apply spatiotemporal informatics to area studies. This paper sums up current situations on area informatics and introduces the H-GIS outcomes about applying spatiotemporal informatics to area studies.

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  1. Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University, 46 Shimoadachi-cho Yoshida, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

    Shoichiro Hara

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  1. Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, 606-8501, Yoshida-Honmachi, Kyoto, Japan

    Toru Ishida

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Hara, S. (2010). Area Informatics – Concept and Status –. In: Ishida, T. (eds) Culture and Computing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6259. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17184-0_17

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