Water Heritage in the Rural Hinterland Landscapes of the UNESCO Alto Douro Wine Region, Portugal: A Digital Humanities Approach
Gerardo Vidal Gonçalves,
Dina Borges Pereira,
Martín Gómez-Ullate,
André da Silva Mano
Affiliations
Gerardo Vidal Gonçalves
CIDEHUS Centro Interdisciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades da Universidade de Évora, Largo do Marquês de Marialva 8, 7000-654 Évora, Portugal
Dina Borges Pereira
AHAS Associação de História e Arqueologia de Sabrosa, 5060-422 Sabrosa, Portugal
Martín Gómez-Ullate
Resarch Group «Musical Heritage, Culture and Education», Department of Didactics of Music, Plastic and Body Expression, Teacher Training College, Universidad de Extremadura/Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas (ESART), 6000-243 Castelo Branco, Portugal
André da Silva Mano
Faculty of Geo-Information Management and Earth Observation, Universtity of Twente, 7522 Twente, The Netherlands
Starting from a well defined and demarcated area in space, the Corgo River, in the region of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, this work seeks through Information Technologies (IT), Digital Humanities and online tools and applications (software) to provide digital images of space and water resources, anthropic elements related to water and various natural features. Based on these available resources and a set of historical cartographic documents, we provide a realistic view of the cultural and natural water landscape and how augmented reality can help archaeology interpret this landscape and its historical transformations.
