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

    • Title:The spatial humanities : GIS and the future of humanities scholarship / edited by David J. Bodenhamer, John Corrigan, and Trevor M. Harris.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Bodenhamer, David J.
      Corrigan, John.
      Harris, Trevor M.
    • Published/Created:Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2010.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Geographic information systems--Social aspects.
      Human geography.
      Humanities--Social aspects.
      Humanities--Social aspects--Methodology.
      Memory--Social aspects.
      Learning and scholarship--Technological innovations.
    • Description:xv, 203 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
    • Series:Spatial humanities.
    • Summary: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.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780253355058 (cloth : alk. paper)
      0253355052 (cloth : alk. paper)
      9780253222176 (pbk. : alk. paper)
      0253222176 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Turning toward Place, Space, and Time / Edward L. Ayers
      2. 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. Geospatial Semantic Web, Pareto GIS, and the Humanities / Susan Bergeron
      9. GIS, e-Science, and the Humanities Grid / Paul S. Ell
      10. Challenges for the Spatial Humanities: Toward a Research Agenda / David J. Bodenhamer.
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