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"Culture & Technology" European Summer University in Digital Humanities
University of Leipzig

Humanities Data and Mapping Environments

This spatial humanities workshop will introduce participants to different ways of thinking about humanities data, their curation within projects and their use in digital mapping environments. The workshop will not be a traditional course in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), although we will use some of the functionality of open source GIS along the way. The workshop is designed for the total beginner who would like to explore how a spatial dimension can enrich research projects in the humanities and who would like to learn some basic skills for collecting and organizing data in order to be able to integrate such methods into their research workflows.

The workshop lasts a total of 36 hours, two weeks of 18 contact hours each.

The central goals of the workshop are fourfold:

  • to learn where we can obtain spatial data relevant to our research interests, or capture data from analog sources through digitization,
  • to explore how data spatial data can be modeled for our projects,
  • to practice different ways that we can tell a story by visualizing spatial data, and
  • to learn ways that we can disseminate and share that data.

In the first part of the course we conduct a critical review of a range of projects in the spatial humanities: their scope and the rhetorical strategies they employ for spatial storytelling and argument.  We will begin by reflecting on how location-based research might be incorporated into research projects in different disciplines (cinema, art history, anthropology, history, literature, etc) as well as the challenges of such a spatial dimension in research. We will begin to learn about the creation of data in relevant formats for spatial humanities projects (using gazetteers, mobile data collection, off the shelf software) and learn some basic coding skills in order to perform repetitive tasks for building a spatial dataset. Students will be introduced to normalization and wrangling techniques and will contrast the manual, slow creation of data with more automated forms.

In the second part of the course, we will learn some skills in web development so that we can do some basic web mapping. We will experiment with web scraping and other automated workflows and will turn to more complex forms of map visualization. Open source GIS software will be used to learn about georeferencing/warping and the creation of historical vector/polygon data from digitized historical maps. Depending on the time available, we will explore the sharing of specialized humanities spatial data in repositories and gazetteers, their design and their theoretical underpinnings.

Participants of the workshop will have the opportunity to present and design individual projects.  We will also work collectively over the two weeks to build a small set of historical research materials of relevance to the group (For example, I have many historical representations of the Middle East and Arabia that we could use, in particularly open archival materials, including 7000+ maps from the Qatar Digital Library, or from any of the numerous digital map libraries about other parts of the world.)

A list of supplementary readings will be provided by the instructor.  

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