The spatial humanities : GIS and the future of humanities scholarship / edited by David J. Bodenhamer, John Corrigan, and Trevor M. Harris.

Other author Bodenhamer, David J.
Other author Corrigan, John.
Other author Harris, Trevor M.
Format Book
Publication InfoBloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2010.
Descriptionxv, 203 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

SeriesSpatial humanities
Spatial humanities (Indiana University Press) ^A1092734
Contents 1. Turning toward place, space, and time / Edward L. Ayers -- 2. The potential of spatial humanities / David J. Bodenhamer -- 3. Geographic information science and spatial analysis for the humanities / Karen K. Kemp -- 4. Exploiting time and space : a challenge for GIS in the digital humanities / Ian Gregory -- 5. Qualitative GIS and emergent semantics / John Corrigan -- 6. Representations of space and place in the humanities / Gary Lock -- 7. Mapping text / May Yuan -- 8. The geospatial semantic web, Pareto GIS, and the humanities / Trevor M. Harris, L. Jesse Rouse, and Susan Bergeron -- 9. GIS, e-Science, and the humanities grid / Paul S. Ell -- 10. Challenges for the spatial humanities : toward a research agenda / Trevor M. Harris, John Corrigan, and David J. Bodenhamer.
Abstract 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.
Local noteLittle-305131060815X
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009053214
ISBN0253355052 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780253355058 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0253222176 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780253222176 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks G70.212 .S654 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold