by Katharina Biermann | Apr 27, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
I was reorganizing the spreadsheet the other night when I realized that there are far more people involved in even the one source from which I am pulling hard data points (as opposed to auxiliary information) than it seems. The source with which I began this...
by Katharina Biermann | Apr 27, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
The embedded map above shows the current state of this cartographic experiment. A couple of things have changed since I began this project; first, there are now two data sets. I started out with simply the information from William Francis Allen et al.’s Slave...
by Katharina Biermann | Apr 4, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
One of the thought-provoking themes of the recent Skype conversations our class has been having with scholars of musicology and the digital humanities is that of map-making and movement. In this case, I refer not only to the maps and research blog(s) of Kate Elswit...
by Katharina Biermann | Mar 8, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
I’ve had a particularly interesting experience these last few weeks squaring off against Omeka Neatline as well as beginning to consider some of the limits of not only what digital maps can do, but what they ought to be able to do. It all started, of course,...
by Katharina Biermann | Feb 15, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
Coming back to this project in its fourth stage has been interesting on any number of levels…Perhaps the most immediate difference between the project as I approached it at its inception and my current participation is the step we have taken back – though...
