Digitization, data wrangling, geospatial and time visualization.
Generous interfaces and the stuff of digital collections.
We build a small digital collection together!
Scanning to archival standards, recording metadata using best practices and controlled vocabularies.
Software: Photoshop, Acrobat, VueScan, Google Sheets
Collection: Civilian Conservation Corps in Idaho - Images and Documents from Pat Hart and Ivar Nelson's collection.
Text Analysis, Spatial Analysis, Time Series, and Network Analysis
Google Fusion Tables for Mapping - White Pine King of Many Waters (link to csv)
Timelinejs - Bunker Hill (link to csv)
Telling a multi-modal story with a StoryMap. Using materials from today or from the web, build a StoryMap.
- Flickr Album: University of Idaho Digital Initiatives
- Download this csv for Map Tour: MapTour.csv
- How to make a map and then a story map
- Notes on Best Practices
- Map Journal Tutorial
Reflect on the process.
Geospatial visualization:
- Alex Wellerstein, Nukemap
- The Map Room
- XKCD, Movie Narrative Charts
- Minard, Napoleon’s 1812 Russian campaign.
Mitchell Whitelaw, "Generous Interfaces for Digital Cultural Collections", DHQ 9, 1 (2015).
Tim Sherratt, "It’s All About the Stuff: Collections, Interfaces, Power, and People", JDH 1, 1 (2011).
Katie Rawson and Trevor Muñoz, "Against Cleaning", Curating Menus (2016). (discussion about lack of reflection about the practice of data cleaning, despite it being the largest part of any project)
Fred Gibbs and Trevor Owens, "The Hermeneutics of Data and Historical Writing", in Writing History in the Digital Age (2013).
Scott B. Weingart, "Demystifying Networks", JDH 1, 1 (2011).
Luke Tredinnick, "The Making of History: Remediating Historicized Experience" and Brian Maidment, "Writing History with the Digital Image: A Cautious Celebration", in Toni Weller, ed., History in the Digital Age (London: Routledge, 2013).
Tutorials:
- Sarah Simpkin, Introduction to mapping and spatial methods for the humanities (2017).
- Lincoln Mullen, Spatial Humanities Workshop (2015).
- Miriam Posner Cytoscape tutorials (2016), DOI:10.5281/zenodo.56245. (network graph classroom tutorials shared on github)
- Marten Düring, "From Hermeneutics to Data to Networks: Data Extraction and Network Visualization of Historical Sources" (2015). (Network graph on Palladio)
- Martin Grandjean, "GEPHI – Introduction to Network Analysis and Visualization" (2015).
Textbooks:
- Trina Chiasson and Dyanna Gregory, Data + Design (Reynolds Journalism Institute, 2014).
Web based tools:
- TimelineJS (simple timeline connected to Google Sheets)
- Timemapper (TimelineJS with a map)
- StoryMapJS (basic slideshow connected to a map, set up using a web based editor) advanced setup
- geoJSON on GitHub (simple way to render and embed maps from GitHub). Uses Leaflet.js, example repo.
- VisualEyes (map, timeline, media, text. project from U of Virginia SHANTI INTERACTIVE) Not suggested, but example of academic attempt of geospatial software
- WorldMap (harvard open GIS platform)
- Map Warper (geo-rectify and find historic maps)
- Palladio (web based historial data viz tool)
- Fusion Tables network graph
- rawgraphs (quick visualization based on d3.js)
Network analysis:
- Gephi
- Cytoscape
- R: igraph, BIBLIOMETRIX, ggraph, NetworkD3.
- Elijah Meeks, Gephi Workshop and "More Networks in the Humanities" (2011).
- Six Degrees of Francis Bacon