Comments on: Geographic Information Systems and the Digital Humanites

By: Jim Proctor

Jim Proctor — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:18:00 +0000

Yes, let’s talk further; I’ll be posting a possible session on digital field scholarship, for which GPS/GIS play important roles.

By: Bimbisar Irom

Bimbisar Irom — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:36:00 +0000

I very much look forward to working with you and learning from you both, Meg and Tony.

By: Meg Roland

Meg Roland — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:49:00 +0000

I am very interested in participating in a GIS session as well. I am a medievalist and reearcher on late medieval cartography. I taught a class last spring on Cartography and Literature in which students created a GIS literary edition (among other things) We read Sebald’s RIngs of Saturn, I spoke at last year’s MLA on this topic various theoretical works, medieval works, THoreau. I am particularly interested in how can we integrate the spatial properties of GIS into literary studies and include students in DH projects that investigate these two fields? Love to talk with some other folks, and I would be glad to share my students’ project to get input. There is a good introduction in The Spatial Humanities that I could bring copies of as a starting point for discussion. Let’s organize a session!
–Meg Roland, Marylhurst University, Portland, Oregon

By: Tony Moreno

Tony Moreno — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:37:00 +0000

This sounds pretty interesting to me; I’ve been exploring Google Earth and its various options to display a variety of ideas/imagery. Additionally I’ve been exploring possible ways to for collaboration with group projects in GE and google maps as well.