The use of geographic information systems in technology of concrete historical investigation support

The article is devoted to the further development of the distributed technology of concrete historical investigation support, based on the principles of crowdsourcing and focused on a wide range of users which are nonprofessional historians and biographers. Development is carried out through integration with geographic information systems (GIS), the use of which in historical research is the trend in recent years. The analysis of the problems of GIS integrating into the technology under consideration and the description of the ways to solve them have been made. The article analyzes the tasks and features of GIS in historical research and evaluates the possibility and prospects of using the mechanism of geochronological tracking. Possible problems of including the GIS elements in the technology, which are the consequence of the specificity of concrete historical investigation, are analyzed. The methods for solving the identified problems are proposed. The necessary modification of the object model of the technology in the form of the introduction of a new type of data for the connection of the elements of the semantic network of technology with cartographic information is described.