• Date: November 23rd, Saturday, 2019 10:00-11:30
• Location: International Conference Hall, Natural Science Building, University of Seoul

The restoration works for ancient channels and territories have been separately carried out in the fields of historical geography, history, and archaeology. As a result, the theoretical perspectives, analytical methodologies, and actual data on ancient channels and territories have not been shared sufficiently, leading to a weak discourse and fragmented irregular research output. In need of a new approach toward the establishment of civilizations and the exchange among them today, it is required to seek a new methodology for restoring ancient channels and territories. This session examines the results of multi-disciplinary research on restoring ancient channels and territories, which was carried out as part of such an effort. Thus, we will examine the necessity of transdisciplinary research for restoring ancient channels and territories, the construction of ‘Silkroadpia’, a multi-disciplinary platform that allows a total research by sharing geographical, archaeological and anthropological data, and the development of ‘MEPTA’, an algorithm for restoring ancient channels and territories that was built through a multi-disciplinary research among geography, archaeology and anthropology.

On November 23rd, an academic conference was held through a special session in the geography conference at the University of Seoul with the topic “New Methodologies for Civilization Exchange Research: ‘Silkroadpia’, a Multi-disciplinary Integrated Data-sharing and Research Platform”.

As the first presenter, Dr. Il-hong Ko mentioned the need for a new methodology in sharing data for research in archaeology. The second presenter, Dr. Jungwon Huh, suggested an information-sharing platform as a methodology in sharing spatial data for archaeology. As the last presenter, Woo Jin Shim, a doctoral student, gave an explanation of Silkroadpia developed as a sharing platform of spatial information.

This conference was significant as it suggested Silkroadpia that can actually realize a sharing platform since there is quite a large necessity of a platform for sharing spatial information in the field of archaeology.