Introducing DH Maps

October 26, 2023

Seminar and Workshop Framing

What does it mean to map humanities data? How can maps and other interfaces help us make new interactive narratives in DH?

Molina, Amanda Ortiz, and Ryan Stears. “Postcolonial DH: Critical Cartographies, Decolonial Archives, and Humanities for the Public.” Studies in Social Justice 17, no. 3 (October 3, 2023): 350–59. https://doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v17i3.4387
Torn Apart/Separados https://xpmethod.columbia.edu/torn-apart/ and Sá Pereira, Moacir P. de. “Representation Matters,” June 25, 2018. https://xpmethod.columbia.edu/torn-apart/reflections/moacir_p_de_sa_pereira_2.html.
Khatib, Randa El, and Marcel Schaeben. “Why Map Literature? Geospatial Prototyping for Literary Studies and Digital Humanities.” Digital Studies / Le Champ Numérique 10, no. 1 (September 21, 2020). https://doi.org/10.16995/dscn.381.
Lee, Robert, Tristane Ahtone, Margaret Pearce, Kalen Goodluck, Geoff McGhee, and Cody Leff. “Land-Grab Universities.” High Country News. Accessed October 20, 2023. https://www.landgrabu.org/ and Robert Lee, “How We Investigated the Land-Grant University System,” March 30, 2020. https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-education-how-we-investigated-the-land-grant-university-system.

Skim Siddiqui, Nabeel. “Are We There Yet? Diversity and Mobility in the Digital Humanities – Nabeel Siddiqui.” Accessed August 19, 2023. https://nabeelsiddiqui.net/digital-projects/are-we-there-yet-diversity-and-mobility-in-the-digital-humanities/.
Explore one of the example projects:
- Cameron Blevins and Jason Heppler, Geography of the Post http://cameronblevins.org/gotp/
- Julius Wilm, Robert K. Nelson, and Justin Madron, “Homesteading,” American Panorama, ed. Robert K. Nelson and Edward L. Ayers, accessed October 20, 2023, https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/homesteading/
- T. Arnold, N. Ayers, J. Madron, R. Nelson, L.Tilton, L. Wexler. Photogrammar (Version 3.0). 2021. https://photogrammar.org/

Keralis, Spencer D. C., Courtney E. Jacobs, and Matthew Weirick Johnson. “Collaborative Digital Projects in the Undergraduate Humanities Classroom: Case Studies with TimelineJS.” The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, May 11, 2021. https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/classroom-timeline-projects/.
Yin, Leon. “Magic Spreadsheets That Equip the Public – The Markup,” August 11, 2023. https://themarkup.org/levelup/2023/08/11/magic-spreadsheets-that-equip-the-public.
Robertson, Stephen. “Digital Mapping as a Research Tool: Digital Harlem: Everyday Life, 1915–1930.” The American Historical Review 121, no. 1 (2016): 156–66. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43956143
Conroy, Melanie. “Networks, Maps, and Time: Visualizing Historical Networks Using Palladio.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 15, no. 1 (2021). http://digitalhumanities.org:8081/dhq/vol/15/1/000534/000534.html.
Sack, C. (2017). Web Mapping. The Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge (4th Quarter 2017 Edition), John P. Wilson (ed.). https://gistbok.ucgis.org/bok-topics/web-mapping