The Humanities Now!

Category: Blog #5

  • ARC GIS and what it tells us

    The past couple of weeks and using ARC GIS have probably been the toughest so far. It was not using GIS that was tough, because that was easy and user-friendly, it was more or less understanding the objective at first. As Bodenhamer says, “…we live in a physical world and routinely use spatial concepts of…

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  • If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a GIS map is worth a million. 

    Throughout this course we have looked at several ways to organise information and present it in such a way that it is more meaningful than before. The creation of our very own GIS maps are a prime example of this. Bodenhammer emphasises the meaningfulness of maps by stating that “all spaces contain embedded stories based on…

  • GIS: Another Layer to Shamokin

    GIS, or Geographic Information Systems, is a unique way to explain and show the history of a certain “space”, or as Bodenhammer puts it, “…the platform for multiplicity, a realm where all perspectives are particular and dependent upon experiences unique to an individual, a community, or a period of time” (14). So while we may…

  • Arc Gis: Discover the hidden information on the Map

    Doing a digital humanity project is basically a process to find the information hiding in the back of other information. In the most basic transcription work, we are extracting text from the image. Then, we extract statistics from text using voyage tools. Now we are trying to extract the interactions between places and people using…

  • A New Look at History: ArcGIS

    For the past couple of weeks, our class has been collaborating on our sections of the Powell Diary in order to get enough information to build a GIS data dictionary. With the information that our class was able to collect through collaboration, we were able to determine the names and nicknames of the people and…

  • Understanding History Through GIS

    Over the last two weeks, we did close reading on Powell Diary, built our GIS Data Dictionary,  created our own story maps and finally published the maps through a web mapping application. In my story maps, I focused primarily on the connections between Shamokin and Native Americans. Through maps and spatial thinking, I tried to find the answers…

  • Advanced Mapping with GIS

    Throughout the week we’ve been learning about the various features of GIS and how we can take mapping and visual spatial thinking to the next level. Mapping has changed a lot over the years, and the “subject matter once organized largely by periods increasingly embraces themes of region, disapora, colonial territory, and contact zones and…

  • The Benefits of Using GIS

    GIS stands for geospatial information system, a very useful system in which one can visualize, interpret and analyze a large sum of information. GIS can be used in many different ways, one way being a map in which one can layer information in an understandable and visually appealing way. The GIS map that displays the…

  • Geographic Visualization Map and It’s Relevance

    This GIS, Geospatial Information System, is used to be able to describe the Moravian missions made by Powell and his friends during the year 1748. The GIS has already been used for similar ideas, shown in Bodenhammer’s article, The Spacial Humanities,  “archeologists have used GIS and computer animations to reconstruct the Roman Forum, for example, creating a…