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Category Archives: HGIS
The Digital Humanities as the Upgrade Path
It’s the end of the year, and it’s time to cycle out the old, staid DHS background for a new, hip background image. Old 2010 was represented by this image: New and improved 2011 (at least the first part of … Continue reading
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Chinese Civilization in Time and Space
Fan I Chun was here at Stanford yesterday, visiting from Academica Sinica where he’s busy developing GIS datasets for China based on aerial photos, historical maps, gazetteers and atlases. Stanford has had authorized access to the Chinese Civilization in Time … Continue reading
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Spatiality and Slavery
On Friday I had the opportunity to sit in on Zephyr Frank’s presentation for the Virtual Cities/Digital Histories symposium. His work, Terrain of History: Spatial History of Rio de Janeiro, 1840s-1930s, continues to produce beautiful visualizations and analyses.
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Mapping the Republic of Letters
I’ve been remiss in leaving out an updated link to the excellent Mapping the Republic of Letters project that I’ve had the good fortune to take part in over this last year. Led by Dan Edelstein and Paula Findlen and … Continue reading
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Historical Georectification: The Seductive Power of Ducks
Edward Tufte referred to one form of visual junk as “ducks”, in reference to a house built like a giant duck, criticizing the superfluity of it with a quote from Robert Venturi that ends with the admonition: It is all … Continue reading
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Peer Review of Undergraduate Spatial History Projects
New research presented by undergraduates studying at The Spatial History Project at Stanford demonstrates the vibrancy and opportunity of spatial history and historical GIS. Continue reading
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