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Category Archives: HGIS
Nine Rivers and a Mountain
That’s what you’ll cross on your way to Rome from Sarajevo. You could stop at Ravenna or Aqvuileia or Interamnio. It is a much more pleasant trip than the overland route from Hippo, where Augustine wrote the City of God. … Continue reading
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Rome’s World:A Digital Translation of the Peutinger Table
Four years ago, when I was a graduate student at UC Merced, I presented some of my research exploring the effect of environmental change on state formation in Sandai China using spatial analysis. The conference was a small affair focused … Continue reading
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The Digital Humanities as Hackerspace
Today is the first attempt at creating a Humanities Hackerspace here at Stanford. I’ll be joining Ryan Heuser, hacker and lab manager for the Literary Lab, and the possibility of more Stanford alt-ac types (like Academic Technology Specialists Matt Jockers … Continue reading
DH11 Opening Keynote: David Rumsey
I’m happy David Rumsey was asked to open up this year’s Digital Humanities conference because it gave me a chance to personally thank him for making my work, and the work any scholar who needs historical maps from the periods … Continue reading
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Drawing Water
I was lucky enough to be asked to take part in a data visualization workshop at the Exploratorium this Saturday and, as part of the amazing collection of inspirational material submitted by the participants, I saw this piece. A work … Continue reading
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Meaningful Centralized Spatial Services
Lately, I’ve been trying to build a formal continuum of spatial services based on audience, analytical complexity and sustainability to orient scholars and spatial services providers when assessing prospective projects. Too often, researchers are using ArcGIS for duties better served … Continue reading
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Digital Echoes at AAS
Despite my earlier negativity, there was some digital at the AAS conference in Honolulu after all. Interspersed with the classic close reading of historical texts filed away in various archives, I saw a few hints at how digital objects and, … Continue reading
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The Digital Humanities as Marginal Sub-Field
Here I am in Honolulu at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, where I will be presenting on Day 5, the last day, during the final set of presentations, as part of the only panel mentioning the Digital Humanities, … Continue reading
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The TED Talk Fetish
On Wednesday I gave a two-hour workshop on using Gephi. I had hoped to get into the more exotic aspects of the software, including dynamic networks and using sub-filters, but I barely had enough time to demonstrate how to set … Continue reading
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Database Literacy
Benjamin Schmidt at Princeton has written an excellent description of databases in digital humanities research. Along with outlining how databases work in the mediation of humanities knowledge, he also highlights the need for data literacy among humanities scholars. Still, all … Continue reading
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