The spatial humanities : GIS and the future of humanities scholarship /

The spatial humanities : GIS and the future of humanities scholarship / edited by David J. Bodenhamer, John Corrigan, and Trevor M. Harris. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, (c)2010. - 1 online resource (xv, 203 pages) : illustrations, maps. - Spatial humanities .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Turning toward place, space, and time / The potential of spatial humanities / Geographic information science and spatial analysis for the humanities / Exploiting time and space : a challenge for GIS in the digital humanities / Qualitative GIS and emergent semantics / Representations of space and place in the humanities / Mapping text / The geospatial semantic web, Pareto GIS, and the humanities / GIS, e-Science, and the humanities grid / Challenges for the spatial humanities : toward a research agenda / Edward L. Ayers -- David J. Bodenhamer -- Karen K. Kemp -- Ian Gregory -- John Corrigan -- Gary Lock -- May Yuan -- Trevor M. Harris, L. Jesse Rouse, and Susan Bergeron -- Paul S. Ell -- Trevor M. Harris, John Corrigan, and David J. Bodenhamer.

Geographic information systems (GIS) have spurred a renewed interest in the influence of geographical space on human behavior and cultural development. Ideally GIS enables humanities scholars to discover relationships of memory, artifact, and experience that exist in a particular place and across time. Although successfully used by other disciplines, efforts by humanists to apply GIS and the spatial analytic method in their studies have been limited and halting. The Spatial Humanities aims to re-orient--and perhaps revolutionize--humanities scholarship by critically engaging the technology and specifically directing it to the subject matter of the humanities. To this end, the contributors explore the potential of spatial methods such as text-based geographical analysis, multimedia GIS, animated maps, deep contingency, deep mapping, and the geo-spatial semantic web.--Publisher's description.



9780253013637


Geographic information systems--Social aspects.
Human geography.
Humanities--Social aspects.
Humanities--Social aspects--Methodology.
Memory--Social aspects.
Learning and scholarship--Technological innovations.


Electronic Books.

G70 / .S638 2010