Complex Mapping Projects in the Liberal Arts
- Formosa - Dr. Doug Fix (Reed College) has established a digital library of images, text, and maps to characterize the island of Formosa (now Taiwan) in the 19th Century. The maps are served using ArcGIS software.
- Neatline is a geotemporal exhibit-builder that allows you to create beautiful, complex maps and narrative sequences from collections of archives and artifacts, and to connect your maps and narratives with timelines that are more-than-usually sensitive to ambiguity and nuance. The Scholars’ Lab (at the University of Virginia) designed Neatline as a suite of plugins for the open-source Omeka framework, which provides a powerful platform for content management and web publication.
- Digital Scholarship Lab - University of Richmond. The Lab develops innovative digital humanities projects that contribute to research and teaching at and beyond the University of Richmond. It seeks to reach a wide audience by developing projects that integrate thoughtful interpretation in the humanities and social sciences with innovations in new media. The mapping projects include:
- Hidden Patterns of the Civil War
- American Panorama
- The History Engine: Tools for Collaborative Education and Research - this project employs traditional GIS technology.
- Voting America: United States Politics, 1840-2008 - this project employs traditional GIS technology
- Hypercities - A collaborative research and educational platform developed by UCLA and USC for traveling back in time to explore the historical layers of city spaces in an interactive, hypermedia environment. Built on Google Maps and Google Earth, HyperCities uses geo-referenced historical maps, 3D reconstructions, oral histories, historical photographs, and other forms of documentary evidence and data, to allow anyone to create “interpretative pathways” through time and space, unveiling layer after layer of history. HyperCities is an open-content platform, which means anyone can register and create collections.
- Visual Eyes - From SHANTI (Sciences, Humanities and Arts Network of Technological Initiatives) at UVA. This is a web-based authoring tool developed at the University of Virginia to weave images, maps, charts, video and data into highly interactive and compelling dynamic visualizations.
- The Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University has produced a number of web-mapping projects, including the following:
- The World Map Project is built to assist academic research and teaching as well as the general public and supports discovery, investigation, analysis, visualization, communication and archiving of multi-disciplinary, multi-source and multi-format data, organized spatially and temporally. These maps are used in courses as well as in research.
- Through a Glass Darkly - Maps, data, and other resources recounting genocide in Rwanda from 1994 to present.
- The Out of Eden Walk Project - National Geographic team walking the path of human migration across the globe
- Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations - a GIS-based mapping platform that makes materials available for mapping and spatial analysis of Roman and medieval worlds from the first 1500 years of western Eurasia. See this Harvard Crimson article for additional information.
Last updated: July 30, 2024
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