“What is a map? What is in a map? How do you map?”
In the Humanities, mapping can be defined in so many different ways, there is no easy answer to these questions. In fact, your research can dictate the parameter of choices that define your map. Below are a few examples of just how multi-faceted mapping can be for the humanities, and how the digital can help scope and develop innovative approaches to projects. How then might your project utilize these tools?
Beyond the Digitized Slide: The Mapping Edition
Welcome to the Hands-on Mapping Portion of this year’s Getty Summer Institute!
To start, navigate to this page via the URL below:
http://sandbox.idre.ucla.edu/sandbox/beyond-the-digitized-slide-mapping-edition
“What is a map? What is in a map? How do you map?”
In the Humanities, mapping can be defined in so many different ways, there is no easy answer to these questions. In fact, your research can dictate the parameter of choices that define your map. Below are a few examples of just how multi-faceted mapping can be for the humanities, and how the digital can help scope and develop innovative approaches to projects. How then might your project utilize these tools?
Mapping Maps
ESRI Story Map: http://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/app-list/ | port data
Mapbox: https://www.mapbox.com/ | port data
GoogleEarth: https://www.google.com/earth/ | coin data
NYPL map warper: http://maps.nypl.org/warper/
CartoDB: https://cartodb.com/ | coin data
Visualizing Data
Google Fusion Tables: https://www.google.com/fusiontables/ | coin data
Palladio: http://palladio.designhumanities.org/ | ship wreck data
Timelines and Maps
VisJS: http://visjs.org/
Timeline JS: http://timeline.knightlab.com/
SIMILE: http://simile-widgets.org/timeline/