After Class (due by Noon on April 16):
- Blog Entry #7: Describe any challenges or issues that arose during the creation of your timeline and/or Google Map/Story Map. What is the added value of incorporating these types of visualizations? How can you see incorporating these into your final project?
- Once you have finished your timeline, embed your timeline into a blog post (if you also want to embed it to your Omeka exhibit, click here for instructions).
- Embed one Google Map and one StoryMap to your WordPress Skills Assessments Page
- You can use the data I provide in the tutorial/slides or incorporate your own research (if you also want to embed it to your Omeka exhibit, click here for instructions).
- If you are feeling adventurous, here is a tutorial for Google Earth
- Read: Marten Düring, “From Hermeneutics to Data to Networks: Data Extraction and Network Visualization of Historical Sources,” Programming Historian 4 (2015), https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0044.
Coursework (April 16/18) – Geospatial Analysis (Data Maps)
- Adding Historic Maps into Google Maps*
- Publishing Spatial Data & Working with Data Maps: Flourish
- Lecture: Data Visualizations and Flourish
- Skills Assessment: Cartometric Maps/Data Visualization in Flourish
- If you want to try out other data: Resources for Spatial Humanities
*April 18 is a work on your own class. I will be available via Slack.
After Class (due by Noon on 4/23):
- Blog Post #8 –Write a reflective post (500 words) on the ways that geospatial visualization and analysis can change the historical questions we ask, and the ways that we understand the past. What are your thoughts on historical inquiry and its relationship to the concepts of absolute space and representational space in a digital environment? What are the potential pitfalls in using these techniques? i.e., How do we sometimes lie with maps? Think about the various types of “space” that White and the author authors discuss. What examples of absolute and non-absolute spaces are present in your work? Think about the data you have or want to collect and whether it is geographic or conceptual data (refer to readings in answering this question). What are the specific data points you would need to represent for a spatial analysis? How would a spatial or geographic representation of data answer questions, or raise new ones, related to your work? What errors and uncertainties would you need to acknowledge or represent?
- Skills Assessment –Make sure to embed/include the links of your maps/data from the lessons including the Flourish Skills Assessment on your Skills Assessment page
- In-class 4/23:
- We’ll cover any issues with WordPress, Omeka, and Skills Assessments that you may be having and go over your wireframe* for your final project (peer reviews).
- *be prepared to come to class with a near-complete project in Omeka with narrative, navigation, and tech/skills assessments that you are incorporating.
- We’ll cover any issues with WordPress, Omeka, and Skills Assessments that you may be having and go over your wireframe* for your final project (peer reviews).
- In Class 4/25:
- We will be doing our final peer review. Come to class with your Omeka site ready to be reviewed by your classmates. We will be using your computers to view your sites, so please make sure that your computer is ready to be touched by others.
