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#GIS + #DH = #ACK

DH

GIS

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What are (the) Digital Humanities?

http://www.sexandquantumphysics.com/2011/07/paradigms-shift/

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What are Digital Humanities?

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Characteristics

http://thatcamp.org/

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THATCamp

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Spatial Turn

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Connections

http://www.stanford.edu/group/spatialhistory/cgi-bin/site/index.php

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Fighting Words• Similarly, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) offer

dramatic new means to analyze spatiality, even if these are often drenched in empiricist and positivist epistemologies [emphasis added]. GIS, therefore, is not simply reflective of the new importance of space, but also constitutive of it. (Warf and Arias, eds. 2008)

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Fighting Words• As Richard White explains, “GIS often ends up

emphasizing not the constructed-ness of space but rather its given-ness, which is fine if you are setting out to bomb something or go out to eat.” The technology shows its limitations, however, when the purpose is to understand “a wider spectrum of human constructions of space over time.” (http://toolingup.stanford.edu/?page_id=1167, accessed 05/12/2013)

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Parallels• Space• Visualization• Scale• Stories

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Space

http://freestock.ca/

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Visualization

http://www.flickr.com/photos/luc/

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Scale

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Stories

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Neatline

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HyperCities

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Cityscapes

https://www.amherst.edu/offices/it/projects/atsprojects/cityscapes

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Gephi

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What are Digital Humanities?

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References• Bodenhamer, David J., John Corrigan, and Trevor M.

Harris. The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2010.

• "Day of DH 2013." Day of DH 2013. Web. 12 May 2013.• "Tooling Up for Digital Humanities." Tooling Up for Digital

Humanities. Web. 12 May 2013.• Warf, Barney, and Santa Arias. The Spatial Turn:

Interdisciplinary Perspectives. London: Routledge, 2009.

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