Dear visitors,

please note that the Doctoral College (Initiativkolleg): “Cultural Transfers and Cross-Contacts in the Himalayan Borderlands” has ended and our website will no longer be updated.

For information on our ongoing research, events and activities please refer to the website of our Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Documentation of Inner and South Asian Cultural History (CIRDIS).

Geography

Ass. Prof. Dr. Karel Kriz
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Prof. William Cartwright (Department of Geospatial Sciences, RMIT, Melbourne)
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Building geo-referenced integrated media tools to facilitate ‘Ground Truthing’

  • Integration of databases from diverse transdisciplinary resources using geo location
  • Geo rules for the Semantic Web
  • Exploiting the Semantic Web to support transdisciplinary research
    • Visualization tools for representing data associated with Cultural Transfers and Bordercrossings transdisciplinary research
  • Depicting cultural transfers
  • Depicting bordercrossings
    • Analysis of existing thematic databases for their potential to support collaborative research related to cultural transfers and border crossings