by Carolyn Nuelle | May 20, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
What a ride! I’ve been thinking a lot about where I was one calendar year ago, before the start of last summer’s CURI project, and the difference is enormous. I had never heard of ArcGIS, I had no idea what the letters “CSV” stood for, and the...
by hynes1 | May 20, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
This semester has been a wild ride. We have worked independently on individual projects, yes, but we have also engaged with a plethora of scholarly material, mostly in the digital humanities. On top of this, we have met in person and Skyped with several scholars who...
by Stella Li | May 20, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
Two years ago, when I walked into the classroom of Paris in the 1920s, I did not know that my last day of college will be spent like this – making maps, doing music history and writing a final blog post for the musical geography website. Out of curiosity I...
by Carolyn Nuelle | May 20, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
During the past year or two, the various Musical Geographers associated with this project have gone through several ways of organizing our data. Some are clearly more effective than others: the first summer, student researchers began with a easily-editable but...
by baumga1 | May 20, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
Let’s start with this simple statement—there is no such thing as a perfect mapping platform. Whether it be ArcGIS, StoryMaps, Google MyMaps, Omeka, or even Carto, there will always be pros and cons to each. With that, I’d like to take some time to talk...
by baumga1 | May 20, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
As the semester comes to a close, and the final polishes are made by our class of cartographers, I find it necessary to reflect on the progress I’ve made as both a scholar and as a human being. My studies in the humanities will continue to reward me as I...
