Comments on: Digitizing Texts: Re-Presenting Time and Space

By: Ben Brophy

Ben Brophy — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:57:35 +0000

Hello, My colleagues and I have a similar session proposal, but focussed a bit more explicitly on timelines and how to make them interoperable. Maybe we could link up.

By: Sara Georgini

Sara Georgini — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:03:50 +0000

I think this will make for an excellent conversation about how to use digital mapping to reinterpret the historical narrative for a new audience, especially given THATCamp’s opportunities to learn key GIS techniques. I’d also like to join in and expand the conversation to explore supplying and editing new research tools for older, established datasets. I invite ideas and suggestions on my current project to map the Adams family itineraries and residences, as well as their points of contact with different religious communities. Specifically, how can I begin to comprehend and aggregate the historical events, social data, religious interactions, and family history that I have captured? What kind of digital record or reference tool can I develop to share this information with other researchers? Hopefully, this unique GIS-based initiative will serve as a double gateway for scholars in both American history and the digital humanities.

By: mimber

mimber — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:07:01 +0000

This will be my first THATCamp, so I checked in with my Info/Lib Services folks who are beginning to talk about DH – they said – go to anything that talks about visualizing and come back and tell us what people said – so this sounds good to me.

By: mhowser

mhowser — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:21:19 +0000

I am interested in learning more about how we can visualize time within the context of a particular location(s). Visualizing temporal data using interactive tools is a great way to provide the context for a text or event, and I would love to learn more about tools and techniques for visualizing textual data from a maps/geographic perspective.

By: Anne Brubaker

Anne Brubaker — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:26:23 +0000

I second this. I study modern American literature with an emphasis on science and technology studies, and I’m likewise interested in thinking about ways to visualize literary texts and trends in terms of time and space. I would be especially interested in trying out a literary timeline, which I think could be a useful tool for both research and teaching.

By: ecornell

ecornell — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:19:49 +0000

Sorry about the broken link.
Try hypercities.com

By: ecornell

ecornell — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:18:41 +0000

Discussing and testing out ways to visualize temporal and spatial relationships in literary texts sounds like a great idea, and I would definitely a session on this. Another site to take a look at (even if just for ideas) is Hypercities, if you haven't already. At this site, maps are used in a variety ways, including expressing political, cultural, and social relationships and their changes over time. Anyone can to add their own knowledge to the project. Imagine if we could link thousands of literary texts on a giant, interactive map. What a way to visualize their myriad implicit and explicit connections.