Tag: ArcGIS

  • Studying Post-Powell Shamokin

    Having the freedom to choose what our final project was in this class gave us not only a unique set of options but also a responsibility to choose something interesting, powerful and connectable to the class as a whole. Not every class offers the opportunity to choose the final exam topic. However, Digital Humanities, in…

  • Brother Grube’s Travels

    Looking back to the beginning of the year, I cannot begin to tell you what my thoughts were about Digital Humanities (DH). That is justified by the fact that I had no idea what DH was. During our first practice blog post, when we were directed to look different examples of DH web pages and…

  • 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…

  • 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…