P0 cultural backbone
The atlas needs a memory map before it can measure loss.
These two pipelines create the missing civilizational layer beneath the event map: Houshamadyan reconstructs settlements and social life; RAA / VirtualANI reconstruct monuments, churches, monasteries, ruins, photographs, and survival status.
Settlement gazetteer / pre-genocide local life
Houshamadyan settlement and social-memory layer
Builds the atlas settlement spine: Ottoman Armenian villages, towns, cities, churches, schools, family names, local economy, maps, and photographs.
- Source
- Houshamadyan
- Status
- P0 registered
- Schema
- 588 harvested pages
- First use
- Gazetteer first
Churches, monasteries, ruins, photos, survival status
Cultural heritage monument layer
Builds a monument-level cultural heritage layer: churches, monasteries, cemeteries, khachkars, destruction/survival status, photographs, coordinates, and source citations.
- Source
- Research on Armenian Architecture / VirtualANI / Caucasus Heritage Watch
- Status
- P0 registered
- Schema
- 221 harvested pages / 16 monument records
- First use
- Monument GIS
Why this matters
Events alone do not show what was destroyed.
The current atlas maps violence, documents, routes, actors, and economic loss. The next academic leap is to map the pre-genocide settlement network and the cultural infrastructure attached to it: churches, schools, monasteries, cemeteries, workshops, photographs, family names, and local economies.
Settlement gazetteer, social institutions, local economy, photo density, map references.
Monument inventory, condition status, source photos, exact or reviewable coordinates.
Unified place authority: vilayet, sanjak, kaza, modern place, multilingual names.
Destroyed cultural network and settlement survival/review layers, not just isolated points.
RAA monument and evidence layer Loading cultural heritage monuments
| Monument | Type | Place authority | Condition | Review |
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Houshamadyan settlement index Loading harvested settlement clusters
| Settlement / cluster | Modern / authority | Type | Vilayet | Map readiness | Pages | Themes |
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Houshamadyan acquisition schema Loading schema
| Field | Required | Description | Source status | Atlas use |
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