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Megan Lightsey

Digital Keys for Unlocking the Humanities' Riches - 2 views

Digital humanists are arguing that it is time to set our focus on how technology is changing liberal arts. Civil War battlefields are being mapped. Animation, charts and primary documents are being...

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Ryan McClure

Talk: Attack of the Digital Map! - 1 views

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    Audrey Altman is set to give a presentation at the University of Iowa entitled, "Attck of the Digital Map! The Wonderful Monsters We Create When Humanities and Technology Collide." In her upcoming presentation Audrey will discuss both historical analysis and digital mapping and the requirements that both bring to the table individually in any given project. Both are individually composed of different aspects and Audrey will try to discuss the pros and cons of both tools when used together simultaneously for one project. Altman will also highlight on the project that she and her undergraduate students have embarked upon this semester that attempts to utilize the two aspects into one project. She will attepmt to delve into the findings, triumphs, ailures, and education gained by she and her students throughout the whole experience.
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    This short blog post announces and advertises Audrey Altman's upcoming talk about digital mapping. This talk is designed to discuss how historical analysis of maps and digital mapping require different sets of skills and methodologies. She is speaking from the context of a project she is heading which is which is involving undergraduate students in to creation of map-based documents for an archive on Iowa Latino/a history. Her talk is going to talk about both problems and surprises involved with the project and digital mapping.
Esther Ok

Pre-Sprawl Aerial Images: 'The Next Best Thing to a Time Machine' - 0 views

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    Journalist Emily Badger reports of the Map and Geographic Information Center, a project collaborated between Trinity College and University of Connecticut Libraries exploring the geographic changes Conneticut. Images have been collected and stitched together that allows users to see the drastic changes to the U.S.'s geography, such as the Interstate Highway System before and after World War II. These Aerial images they share reveal surprising facets of urbanization.
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