Nyssanov E.A., Ibragimov U.V.,  Sembiyeva T.O.

 

South Kazakhstan State University named after M.Auezov, Shymkent, Kazakhstan

 

THE CREATION OF MULTIMEDIA PROGRAMS FOR TRAINING THE HISTORY OF KAZAKHSTAN IN GEOINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

 

Introduction. The new phase of the evolution of mankind, expressed in the introduction to universal informatization, has led to an increase in the role of informative resources. Digital content is a new era in learning, the means that can have a decisive influence on the improvement of historical education. The Strategic Plan for the Development of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan until 2020, established on February 1st, 2010. By the decree of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan N.Nazarbayev, he determined the orientation towards further informatization of the entire education system and the massive introduction of electronic learning. Electronic learning is called the priority direction of the cardinal modernization of education in order to increase the potential of human resources in the State Program for the Development of Education for 2011-2020 years [1].

 

Creating the space for analysis in computer form. In geosciences on the basis of information technologies, the geographic information systems (GIS) are created – the special hardware and software complexes that provide the collection, processing, display and dissemination of spatially coordinated data. One of the main functions of GIS is the creation and use of computer and electronic maps, atlases and other cartographic works [2].

Based on the above data, using GIS programs, they create the thematic maps. Thematic mapping in the GIS has a number of significant methodological, methodic and technological features that allow considering it as an independent direction of geographic mapping. First of all, it should be noted that, in the conceptual plan, the thematic GIS mapping tasks do not overlap with the tasks of digital mapping.

Unlike the digital mapping, aimed at creating more accurate digital analogs of general geographic and topographic maps, GIS mapping has a pronounced information-analytical and heuristic nature. Therefore, it is much less focused on the exact reproduction of the cartographic characteristics of the territory, emphasizing the user's attention to the patterns of spatial distribution of thematic attributes. Often, this orientation leads to the creation of computer pseudo - and quasi-card - electronic counterparts of different cards. Thus, in the process of thematic GIS mapping, a metric rather than a metric model is actually used, which is due to the virtual nature of the use of electronic thematic maps in the process of taking decisions. In this case, the cartometric characteristics, as a rule, do not fall within the field of view of the user of the thematic card, which is more interested in topological aspects of the distribution of thematic features.

 

Thus, thematic maps can be considered as one of the types of Geo-images. The concept of geo-image, introduced by A.M.Berlandt, includes any spatio-temporal, scale, generalized model of terrestrial objects or processes, represented in a graphical form. The introduction of this concept in cartography was caused by the need for an integrated approach to various forms of cartographic visualization: maps, aerial and space imagery, computer images, cartographic films and animations [3].

The most important methodological feature of GIS mapping is the possibility of almost completely closing the gap between the production and use of thematic maps. At the same time, the technology of creating a card “dissolves” as it were in the technology of its use. This process has a great methodological and practical significance, since it leads to a significant expansion of the circle of users of electronic thematic maps, cartographic design becomes a working tool of commercial GIS packages, and topic-based mapping, as a methodical technique, goes beyond the academic framework and turns into an element of technology decision making.

Thematic historical maps, in addition to general geographic reference information, contain the materials on the formation and development of states, state entities, historical events, data on cities and people, etc. GIS-tools allow you to compare information by overlaying thematic layers of maps on the same territory, data on historical, natural and socio-economic processes and phenomena. An integral part of historical knowledge is spatial information. Without it, it is difficult to imagine the specifics and features of the historical process as a whole.

A significant amount of historical knowledge in the process of studying the history is spatial information. These are general geographic, generalizing, thematic maps and atlases of small and medium scales, city plans, schemes of battles, insurrections and much more. In the modern information society such information is increasingly presented in digital (electronic) form. Both individual citizens in daily life and entire organizations regularly use geographic spatial information in their activities digitally.

There is an integration of historical and geographical information and data into the information educational space at the regional and global levels. For example, in a number of countries in America and Europe, the state programs of “electronic government” have been adopted and are being implemented, within the framework of which public databases are being created, often containing the historical and geographical information. This information either already has the form of electronic maps, or requires a binding to those in the process of exploitation.

 

Conclusions. Thus, based on the above, it is quite natural to conclude that the digital historical map is an integral, independent database of thematic data. Behind an apparently simple shell in a digital historical map, several layers of information can be hidden: animated or video-insets, tables, etc. In such maps, the territories of states are gradually changed, the troops are moved, cities are appeared, railroads are laid, etc. The creation of such maps is a very complex process, in which the specialists of completely different branches should be involved. A programmer, a designer, a teacher, a methodologist and, of course, a historian should form a creative group, which will work out a new type of teaching aid. The final product is a digital historical map, integral parts of which will be not only the maps themselves, but also comments to them, various useful information, images of documents, pictures, politicians, etc. illustrations, etc. Thus, a digital historical map can turn into an independent textbook of a new generation.

 

References

 

1. State program of development of education of the Republic of Kazakhstan for 2011-2020 years. - URL: http://edu.resurs.kz/elegal/programma-2011-2020

2. Berlyant A.M. Cartography. -Moscow: “Aspect-press”. - 2001. – p.336.

3. Berlyant A.M. Cartographic animation/À.Ì. Berlyant, L.A. Ushakova. -M.: Scient.world, 2000. - 108 p.