The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship

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David J. Bodenhamer, John Corrigan, Trevor M. Harris
Indiana University Press, 2010 - 203 Seiten

Geographic information systems (GIS) have spurred a renewed interest in the influence of geographical space on human behavior and cultural development. Ideally GIS enables humanities scholars to discover relationships of memory, artifact, and experience that exist in a particular place and across time. Although successfully used by other disciplines, efforts by humanists to apply GIS and the spatial analytic method in their studies have been limited and halting. The Spatial Humanities aims to re-orient--and perhaps revolutionize--humanities scholarship by critically engaging the technology and specifically directing it to the subject matter of the humanities. To this end, the contributors explore the potential of spatial methods such as text-based geographical analysis, multimedia GIS, animated maps, deep contingency, deep mapping, and the geo-spatial semantic web.

 

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1 Turning toward Place Space and Time
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2 The Potential of Spatial Humanities
14
3 Geographic Information Science and Spatial Analysis for the Humanities
31
A Challenge for GIS in the Digital Humanities
58
5 Qualitative GIS and Emergent Semantics
76
6 Representations of Space and Place in the Humanities
89
7 Mapping Text
109
8 The Geospatial Semantic Web Pareto GIS and the Humanities
124
9 GIS eScience and the Humanities Grid
143
Toward a Research Agenda
167
Suggestions for Further Reading
177
List of Contributors
191
Index
195
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