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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Spatial 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
Continue readingAuthorial London, The City In The Lives and Works of Its Writers
AUTHORIAL LONDON Blog by: Nick Onomiya If you are looking for a site that allows you to find where certain British writers or any writers lived in the London area then the Authorial London is the site you want to take a look at. This site not only provides a
Continue readingThe Components of Mapping Inequality
As part of the New Deal, the federal government commissioned The Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) to appraise homes in almost 250 cities and create “security maps” to display their findings. This led to a series of redlining in several of these cities. In 2015, a team at the University
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