February, 2012
Making DH inclusive: A case study
Feb. 12, 2012—In this post I will try to make a case for why and how the discourse surrounding digital humanities can become more inclusive. As I said in class, the specific language of “bigger, better, faster” may seem like a viable and even true “justification” for the inclusion of digital humanities into the academy, where justification...
Pondering the Possibilities…
Feb. 8, 2012—After reading an article on the “Crisis Mappers” in academia who literally map world crisis to be used for research I began to ponder just how many ways GIS can impact our work. While I may not study contemporary crises, there are so many crises that do impact my work, such as The Seven Years...
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
Feb. 3, 2012—In order to build some background knowledge before introducing an extract from Camara Laye’s L’Enfant noir, I’m going to use the two maps April showed in her presentation at the last seminar. (Loved this one – http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/txu-oclc-7293927-africa_interior.jpg ) I wish we already had it fixed up so that I could show them one map, with the...
Excited about GIS!
Feb. 1, 2012—Although I agree with some of the previous posts that Yuan’s article wasn’t as enlightening as I hoped it would be, I am still excited about GIS! I am enthusiastic because of what I think it can do for my research. Since I study the communication between France and the New World I can envisage...
GIS for me
Feb. 1, 2012—Yuan’s article was inaccessible to me. I still have no idea what georeferencing or geoparsing mean. The only example I could vaguely understand was the one used to explain geo-inference, which the author called “a simplistic example.” I suppose I was not their target audience. Consequently, I cannot say with certainty what place GIS can...
GIS for research and teaching
Feb. 1, 2012—I found Yuan’s chapter on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) very stimulation and revealing, as I have never really been keen on geographical spaces and mapping. I fully agree with Yuan, though, that written texts are data-rich documents, whose comprehension, use, and overall value, stand only to be enhanced by coupling semantic analysis with the study...