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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452868703321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , 2010

ISBN

0-253-01363-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Collana

Spatial humanities

Altri autori (Persone)

BodenhamerDavid J

CorriganJohn

HarrisTrevor M

Disciplina

001.30285

Soggetti

Geographic information systems - Social aspects

Human geography

Humanities - Social aspects - Methodology

Humanities - Social aspects

Learning and scholarship - Technological innovations

Memory - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 Turning toward Place, Space, and Time; 2 The Potential of Spatial Humanities; 3 Geographic Information Science and Spatial Analysis for the Humanities; 4 Exploiting Time and Space: A Challenge for GIS in the Digital Humanities; 5 Qualitative GIS and Emergent Semantics; 6 Representations of Space and Place in the Humanities; 7 Mapping Text; 8 The Geospatial Semantic Web, Pareto GIS, and the Humanities; 9 GIS, e-Science, and the Humanities Grid; 10 Challenges for the Spatial Humanities: Toward a Research Agenda; Suggestions for Further Reading

List of ContributorsIndex

Sommario/riassunto

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 an