geospatial tools – dh+lib https://dhandlib.org where the digital humanities and librarianship meet Wed, 15 Oct 2014 15:45:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 180836968 RESOURCE: Geospatial Historian https://dhandlib.org/resource-geospatial-historian/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=resource-geospatial-historian Tue, 17 Sep 2013 19:31:23 +0000 https://dhandlib.org/?p=7931 read more]]>

The Geospatial Historian, modeled after the Programming Historian, is a “tutorial-based open access textbook for historians and digital humanists that aim to teach digital mapping and GIS skills.” Current lessons include Google Maps and Google Earth, Installing QGIS and Adding Layers, Creating New Vector Layers, and Georeferencing. The site editors are looking for additional contributions – contact jim.clifford@usask.ca to join the project.

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This post was produced through a cooperation between Liza Booker, Meghan Finch, Francesca Livermore, Trevor Muñoz, and Sarah Potvin (Editors-at-Large for the week), Zach Coble (Editor for the week), and Caro Pinto and Roxanne Shirazi (dh+lib Review Editors).

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Academic librarians teach information literacy, visual literacy, digital literacy — but do we teach spatial literacy? This post from Kelly Johnston (GIS Specialist for the Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia) explores the value of spatial thinking, linking out to a variety of intriguing resources and research, and introduces the GeoTron 5000 tool, an app developed “to put the power of comparative geography and spatial literacy in hand.” GeoTron 5000 allows for free comparisons across the 50 US states (and the District of Columbia!); users must purchase access to geographical comparisons beyond the US.

This post was produced through a cooperation between Thomas Padilla and Brittany Wofford (Editors-at-Large for the week), Roxanne Shirazi (Editor for the week), and Zach Coble and Sarah Potvin (site editors).

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In preparation for their March 10 SXSW Interactive session, Why Digital Maps Can Reboot Cultural History, Butch Lazorchak (Digital Archivist, Library of Congress) and Matthew Knutzen (Geospatial Libarian, NYPL) discuss digital geospatial tools, using maps to tell stories, and digital stewardship and preservation issues in mapping projects. Knutzen goes step-by-step through the NEH-funded New York City Historical GIS Project and the MapWarper tool that NYPL Labs built to georectify over 5,000 maps from the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division at the New York Public Library.

This post was produced through a cooperation between Heather Martin, Chella Vaidyanathan, Arianne Hartsell-Gundy (Editors-at-Large for the week), Zach Coble (Editor for the week), and Roxanne Shirazi and Sarah Potvin (site editors).

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