Category Archives: Spatial Humanities

Nine Rivers and a Mountain

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

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

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

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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Meaningful Research in Google Maps

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

I had an interesting discussion yesterday with Joseph Kautz, head of Stanford’s Digital Language Lab and Academic Technology Specialist, about creating mobile apps for mapping languages. It made me wonder about how language appears in the commercialized and relatively utilitarian … Continue reading →

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Using Spatial Data to Represent and Analyze Attention of Emergent Entities

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

This is a map of species ranges from the IUCN Red List store of spatial data–specifically amphibians in Central America. But this isn’t supposed to be a map of species range or biodiversity. Rather, it’s meant to be a map … Continue reading →

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DH11 Opening Keynote: David Rumsey

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

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

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

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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Visualizing DH11

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

John Unsworth was good enough to send me the participant list for the upcoming Digital Humanities 2011 Conference and I tried to put together a few interesting visualizations of the participants, sessions and institutions that will make up this year’s … Continue reading →

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Meaningful Centralized Spatial Services

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

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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Google Reveals Stunning Continental-Wide Failure

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Sadly, Google is still incapable of making any headway in the lucrative markets of the Last Continent. Still, as their recently released visualization of Google searches across the globe reveals, they’re doing all right in the rest of the world. … Continue reading →