Spatial humanities

Resources

• Building and Linking Humanities' Digital Spatial Infrastructures

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  This workshop, focussing on "Spatial data medieval to modern", is the first of a series of workshops from the NOS-HS project "Linking, Building, and Sustaining Humanities Digital Spatial Infrastructures for Research in the Nordic Countries". The main aims of this workshop were to define key concepts (spatial infrastructures, Linked Open Data, metadata, ontology), outline major challenges in the field, and to provide an opportunity to share experiences of addressing the issues in individual and national projects across the Nordic countries.

• Working with Named Places: How and Why to Build a Gazetteer

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  A digital gazetteer records information associated with specific places. This lesson teaches you how to create a gazetteer from a historical text, using the Linked Places Delimited (LP-TSV) format.

• Using Digital Archives for Geographical and Archaeological Research

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  This video recording is of 'Using Digital Archives for Geographical and Archaeological Research', the second webinar in a three-part public lecture series hosted by the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI), aimed at early career researchers. The webinar showcases the rich research resources contained in digital archival collections that can be used to advance geographical and archaeological research.

• Spatial Image Analytics

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  Do you work with digital images in a humanities discipline? Are you interested in exploring the spatial properties of your dataset but don't know how? Or maybe you are just curious on the topic. This workshop aims to introduce participants to the technologies and technical abilities required for the spatial exploration of image datasets and is of interest to a variety of digital humanities students, scholars and professionals.

• Spatial Humanities & Social Justice

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  This video features Angel D. Nieves, Professor of Africana Studies and Digital Humanities at Hamilton College, US, talking about the field of black spatial humanities.

• Introduction to Map Warper

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  This lesson from Programming Historian introduces basic use of Map Warper for historical maps. It guides you from upload to export, demonstrating methods for georeferencing and producing visualizations.

• Finding Places in Text with the World Historical Gazetteer

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  Researchers often need to be able to search a corpus of texts for a defined list of terms and historians are often interested in certain places named in a text or texts. This lesson details how to programmatically search documents for a list of terms, including place names and then how to obtain coordinates and map historical place names with the World Historical Gazetteer.

• Displaying a Georeferenced Map in KnightLab's StoryMap JS

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  In this lesson from Programming Historian, you will learn how to display a georeferenced map from Map Warper in KnightLab's StoryMap JS, an interactive web-based map and storytelling platform.

• Historical Farm and People Registry in Iceland

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  This presentation outlines the aim and scope of the Historical Farm and People Registry project, explains the development process and problems encountered on the way, and demonstrates a use case for the 'final' product.

• Geographical Text Analysis

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  Geographical Text Analysis (GTA) is a relatively recent development in the approach to studying, analysing, and extracting the content of textual sources that offers a new method for combining techniques from Natural Language Processing (NLP), Corpus Linguistics, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Humanities research. This module offers a step-by-step guide with real data, with a focused interest in querying the geographic nature of textual sources, and analysis of spatial information on a large scale.

• From Immersive Storytelling to Experimentation in a Multiscale Modelling Approach

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  This resource focuses on immersive environments and multi-scale digital models as tools for scientific research, interpretation, and collaborative decision-making. Through examples ranging from biological systems and agriculture to archaeological reconstructions and heritage site analysis, it demonstrates how virtual reality (VR) technologies, digital twins, and semantic data integration can enhance the understanding of complex datasets and spatial environments.

• Fostering Data Sharing in the Humanities with Open-source software

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  Incentives and advocacy of open science principles have spread for more than two decades in the social sciences and humanities. In this presentation, taking archaeology as a case study, the underlying principles of the “archeoViz” ecosystem will be presented and illustrated, to fuel a more general discussion about the advocacy of open science principles in the social sciences and humanities.

• A Basic Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

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  This pathfinder provides an introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS), covering analysis and visualization. It explains various spatial methods and each method is explained with a definition, practical examples and links to free resources online for further reading and exploration.