This week, we’ve learned about the spatial humanities, explored some map-based DH projects, and gotten an introduction to web mapping tools. Today, we are going to put what we’ve learned into practice and do some more work on our class project creating an interactive experience around the Defeat of Jesse
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Web Mapping 101
The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of web mapping tools and platforms. These tools have long allowed the simple display of and basic interactions with spatially referenced data, but until recently, if you wanted to do any sort of analysis you had to use a desktop GIS system. That situation has
Continue readingSpatial Humanities: GIS/Mapping 101
For the next two weeks we will be exploring the spatial humanities — a vibrant and increasingly popular area of digital humanities research. Humanities scholarship is currently undergoing a “spatial turn” akin to the quantitative, linguistic and cultural “turns” of previous decades, and many are arguing that the widespread adoption of Geographic Information Systems
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