Day 1 readings (required)
Artopoulos, G., Synnes, K., Bahillo, A., Smaniotto C., C., Rebernik, N., (2018). ‘Use of Data Analytics for Enriching Public Spaces with Unique Experiences of Localised Cultural Heritage Content’, in Carsten Busch, Chrisitan Kassung & Jürgen Sieck (Eds). Kultur and Informatik: Hybrid Systems. Glückstadt: VWG, 99-112.
Rawson, Katie, and Trevor Muñoz. “Against Cleaning.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, 279–92. University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
Day 2 readings (required)
Francesca Russello Ammon. “Digital Humanities and the Urban Built Environment: Preserving the Histories of Urban Renewal and Historic Preservation,” Preservation Education and Research 10 (2018): 11-30.
Trevor Harris. “Deep Geography—Deep Mapping: Spatial Storytelling and a Sense of Place.” In Deep Maps and Spatial Narratives. Edited by David J. Bodenhamer, John Corrigan and Trevor M. Harris. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015, pp. 28–53.
Additional readings & resources (recommended)
Avram, G., Ciolfi, L., & Maye, L. (2019). Creating tangible interactions with cultural heritage: lessons learned from a large scale, long term co-design project. CoDesign, 16(3), 251–266.
Careri, Francesco (2017). Walkscapes: Walking as an Aesthetic Practice (2nd edition) Culicidae Architectural Press
Drucker, Johanna. “Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 5, no. 1 (2011).
Johnson, Jessica Marie. “Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads.” Social Text. 36.4 (2018): 57–79
Mattern, Shannon Christine. “A City is Not a Computer” in A City Is Not a Computer : Other Urban Intelligences. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.
Pewu, Jamila Moore. “Digital Reconnaissance: Re(Locating) Dark Spots on a Map” in Josephs, Kelly Baker, and Roopika Risam. The Digital Black Atlantic. University of Minnesota Press, 2021.
Data Wrangling
Google Sheets: Web-based spreadsheet application with data wrangling functionality.
OpenRefine: A powerful free, open source tool for working with messy data.
Gazetteers
GeoNames: A free geographical database (gazetteer) that provides standardized geographic information, such as coordinates, place names, administrative divisions, and feature types.
Pleiades: A community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places.
World Historical Gazetteer: A platform for linking records about historical places, allowing people to make spatial connections across time and language.
Geo-annotation/rectification
Allmaps: A free tool that allows your to geo-reference IIIF images and further annotate maps.
MapWarper: A free to use, open-source map warper / map georectifier, and image georeferencer tool for individuals and small groups.
RecogitoStudio: An extensible platform for collaborative, standards-based annotation of TEI Text, IIIF images, and PDFs with a geo-tagging plugin that enables seamless linking to geographic entities via gazetteers and other semantic resources.
Geocoding
Geocodio: A geocoding platform that utilizes tabular data. The platform works with coordinates, addresses, and place names in the United States and Canada.
GPS Visualizer Geocoder: This tool can provide coordinates throughout the world for current places and addresses.
Mapping
ArcGIS Online: Users may first be overwhelmed by the numbers of features and possibilities, but dedicated learning can result in powerful and informative maps.
ArcGIS StoryMaps: A digital storytelling tool that is part of the ArcGIS Online suite of tools.
Carto: GIS cloud service that allows for free access with an educator account.
Folium: Python library that generates leaflet maps with Python code.
Google Earth: A more robust version of Google My Maps with 3D views.
Google My Maps: A good way to get started with mapping. It allows for placing points manually, drawing polygons and lines, and stylizing what you map.
kepler.gl: Open-source geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets.
leaflet.js: JavaScript library that allows users to produce lightweight, interactive maps.
Palladio: A suite of visualization and analysis tools designed by scholars to ask and answer research questions.
Re:Earth: Free, open, and highly extensible webGIS platform.
StoryMapJS: A free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events.
Tableau Public: A free version of Tableau, a data visualization platform that allows for map making.