The Digital Humanities Laboratory of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (LHuD-FGV) holds tomorrow (November 21, at 6:00 pm) the open session “Evolution of GIS in the Humanities: from Historical GIS to Spatial Humanities” (“Evolução dos SIG nas Humanidades: dos Historical GIS às Spatial Humanities”), with Professor Daniel Alves.
Daniel Alves is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History of the New University of Lisbon. He holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary Economic and Social History, specializing in Urban History, History of Revolutions and Digital Humanities.
The event will be held at the Casa Acervo CPDOC (Rua Jornalista Orlando Dantas, 60, Rio de Janeiro). More information can be found here.
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On this session, Daniel presented a series of projects related to the areas of Historical GIS and Spatial Humanities:
History Projects:
- “A Vision of Britain”, http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/
- “NHGIS, USA”, https://www.nhgis.org/
- “Atlas: Cartografia Histórica”, http://atlas.fcsh.unl.pt/
- “Digital Atlas of American Religion”, http://www.religionatlas.org/
- “ImagineRio”, http://imaginerio.org/
- “Istanbul Maps”, http://www.istanbulurbandatabase.com/
- “Historical Maps of the Habsburg Empire”, http://mapire.eu/en/
- “Pucau, pucau?”, http://www.pucau.org/
- “DECIMA”, http://decima-map.net/what-is-decima-overview/
- “Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761”, http://revolt.axismaps.com/
- “Géographie électorale”, http://geoelections.free.fr/index.htm
- “Charles Booth’s London”, https://booth.lse.ac.uk/
- “BiblioAtlas – Atlas Digital da América Lusa”, http://lhs.unb.br/biblioatlas/In%C3%ADcio
- “Pauliceia 2.0”, http://www.pauliceia.dpi.inpe.br/portal
- “IDE histórica de la ciudad de Madrid”, http://www.idehistoricamadrid.org/hisdimad/index.htm
- “Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade”, http://www.slavevoyages.org/ e “Mapa Interactivo” http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_history_of_american_slavery/2015/06/animated_interactive_of_the_history_of_the_atlantic_slave_trade.html
- “Pelagios”, http://commons.pelagios.org/
Literature projects:
- “Spatial Humanities – Lancaster”, http://www.lancs.ac.uk/spatialhum/
- “Spatial Humanities – Scholars’ Lab”, http://spatial.scholarslab.org/
- “Atlas das Paisagens Literárias de Portugal Continental”, http://litescape.ielt.fcsh.unl.pt/
- “GeoLiterature”, http://txtgeo.net/
- “Visualizing Les Misérables”, https://lesmiserables.mla.hcommons.org/
- “Mapping Literary Visions”, http://www.meredithgoldsmith.com/
- “Tom Waits Map”, http://tomwaitsmap.com/
- “Estudos de Paisagem na UFF”, http://www.gtestudosdepaisagem.uff.br/?page_id=2
- “Atlas das Representações Literárias das Regiões Brasileiras” https://loja.ibge.gov.br/atlas-das-representacoes-literarias-de-regioes-brasileiras-v-2-sertoes-brasileiros-i.html
- “Digital Literary Atlas of Ireland, 1922 – 1949”, https://www.tcd.ie/tceh/projects/DLAI/
Some photos of the open session:
