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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



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Titolo: The spatial humanities : GIS and the future of humanities scholarship / / edited by David J. Bodenhamer, John Corrigan, and Trevor M. Harris Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , 2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (222 p.)
Disciplina: 001.30285
Soggetto topico: Geographic information systems - Social aspects
Human geography
Humanities - Social aspects - Methodology
Humanities - Social aspects
Learning and scholarship - Technological innovations
Memory - Social aspects
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: BodenhamerDavid J  
CorriganJohn  
HarrisTrevor M  
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
Titolo autorizzato: The spatial humanities  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-253-01363-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910452868703321
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Serie: Spatial humanities (Indiana University Press)