Information Technologies in History Research: The Case Of Historical Cemeteries

Modern information technologies (IT) provide progressive tools and methods for data collection, storage,processing, and publication. The essence of historical research is to synthesize new informationfrom different types of historical sources. The analysis of scientific publications proved that IT are stillrarely applied to historical research. Several reasons may account for the state of things. One of them isrelated to rather conservative attitudes of researchers in the field of IT towards collaboration, which alsoaccounts for the absence of specialized software for historical research. The article introduces IT toolsand methods which can be used in historical research in a popular way, and the authors expect to promoteinter-disciplinarity in the field of history.KEY WORDS: necropolistics, geo-information system, data analysis. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15181/ahuk.v25i0.32