The spatial humanities : GIS and the future of humanities scholarship
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The spatial humanities : GIS and the future of humanities scholarship
(Spatial humanities)
Indiana University Press, c2010
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction
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
Suggestions for Further Reading
List of Contributors
Index
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