Geospatial technologies, which include application-based GIS systems, webmapping, and spatial network analysis, are used to define spatial relationships, both in relative terms and in with regards to their absolute position on the planet's surface.
In addition to these, the Digital Humanities considers such approaches as they apply to humanistic questions - how can they be used with incomplete, uncertain, contested and conflicting data? How might qualitative attributes such as emotional or political sentiment be captured? And how do we present results in a manner that conveys our conclusions, without eliminating important nuances, to an audience that may be unfamiliar with them?
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.
Describing a wide variety of applications, the essays in this volume highlight the methodological and substantive implications of a spatial approach to history. They illustrate how the use of GIS is changing our understanding of the geographies of the past and has become the basis for new ways to study history.
Deep maps are finely detailed, multimedia depictions of a place and the people, buildings, objects, flora, and fauna that exist within it and which are inseparable from the activities of everyday life. The essays in this book investigate deep mapping and the spatial narratives that stem from it.
This book examines spatial databases; the acquisition and compilation of data; the analytical compilation of data; the analytical functionality of GIS; and the creation and utilization of critical foundation data layers such as the Digital Elevation Model (DEM). The ways in which GIS can most usefully facilitate archaeological analysis and interpretation are then explored particularly as a tool for the management of archaeological resources.
