LibGuides: Digital Pedagogy and Scholarship: Mapping Tools for the Arts & Humanities

Digitally Mapping the Arts & Humanities

CartoDB
A cloud-based mapping visualization tool.
Crowdmap
Community mapbuilding, a project leader invites others to contribute to a map.
GapVis
Explore textual references to ancient locations.
GPS Visualizer
A tool for mapping GPS data, coordinates, and more.
Historypin
A collaborative community-driven project "pinning" digital artifacts globally.
Timemap
Map across time and space - this Javascript library turns datasets into a combined map and timeline.
MapAList
Create a map visualization of a list of addresses.
Mapline
Capture and geocode large datasets into maps.
Viewshare
A free web application for creating visualizations including tag clouds, mapped collections, and more.

The Spatial Humanities by David J. Bodenhamer (Editor); John Corrigan (Editor); Trevor M. Harris (Editor)
ISBN: 9780253013637
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
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.