GIS and Digital Humanities

McHaffie, Patrick; Hwang, Sungsoon; Follett, Cassie

doi:10.1201/9780429441028-11

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“…Despite the initial inertia towards its adoption (Jessop, 2008: Bodenhamer, 2010, utilization of GIS among Digital Humanities scholars is rapidly emerging (Geddes and Gregory, 2014;Crompton, Lane and Siemens, 2016;Dunn, 2019;McHaffie et al, 2019;Schuster and Dunn, 2020). While GIS helps collect, store, curate, and visualize vector or raster-based patterns and relationships, on interactive and even 3D user-facing platforms, what probably makes it even more unique is its analytical power (Barker et al, 2016;Murrieta-Flores et al, 2017), briefly demonstrated in this research note by performing a computation-intensive EHSA.…”

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Visualizing Pausanias’s Description of Greece with contemporary GIS

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Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

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This progress article focuses on an overview of the potential and challenges of using contemporary Geographic Information System (GIS) applications for the visual rendering and analysis of textual spatial data. The case study is an ancient traveling narrative, Pausanias’s Description of Greece (Periegesis Hellados) which was written in the second century CE. First, we describe the process of converting the volumes to spatial data using a customized version of the open-source digital semantic annotation platform Recogito. Then the focus shifts to the implementation of collected and organized spatial data to a number of GIS applications: namely Google Maps, DARIAH Geo-Browser, Gephi, Palladio and ArcGIS. Through empirical experimentation with spatial data and their implementation in different platforms, our paper charts the ways in which contemporary GIS applications may be implemented to cast new light on ancient understandings of identity, space, and place.

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