Comments on: GIS, Access, Archives and Daydreams

By: Anne Beaumont

Anne Beaumont — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 06:05:35 +0000

Jeanne, (and anyone else who cares to respond)
I came back to your blog because I was looking for a copy of your poster about context in online collections (I have saved it to print on A3 when we get our colour printer back) because I was going through some responses to an online survey which was created to elicit feedback on a map digitisation project we undertook, and it seems the interface was not clear – at least to some of those who responded.
I would appreciate your comments – preferrably directly rather than via the survey.
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/about/pastfuture/future/digitising/mmbw.html
anne

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:51:58 +0000

Anne and Merrilee, Thank you both so much! I am excited to read through the details about the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative. It definitely sounds right up my alley. I am especially intrigued to experiment with the TimeMap Software Tools. Between TimeMap and the ECAI Knowledgebase I have a lot to explore. Jeanne

By: Merrilee Proffitt

Merrilee Proffitt — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:39:03 +0000

I’ll echo Anne’s comment — check out the “Going Places in the Catalog” project, from the iSchool at UC Berkeley. Part of the ECAI project that Anne references above. http://ecai.org/imls2002/

By: Anne Beaumont

Anne Beaumont — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:09:54 +0000

are you familiar with the Elctronic Cultural Atlas Initiative? http://www.ecai.org/

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:02:10 +0000

Thomas,

Thank you so much for both of these comments. These sites are great – I will definitely be spending some more time exploring them. Of course now wishing I could take Prof. Turkel’s class. I guess I could just do all the readings – right?

Jeanne

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:07:25 +0000

Have you seen this The Salem Witchcraft GIS A Visual Re-Creation of Salem in 1692?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:51:32 +0000

Sorry to flood your blog with comments Jeanne, but I recenly had similar GIS/archives daydreams which were heavily influenced by viewing: The Imagining London Project and the Place-Based Computing initiative at The University of Western Ontario where Professor William Turkel has placed a full syllabus online.

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:57:13 +0000

Dorothea,

I will have to hunt for that a bit (or at least keep my eyes open for it!). I have some more ideas on this whole thing – has had my mind racing since I thought of it in class yesterday. Watch for more posts on this topic in the next couple of days.

Jeanne

By: Dorothea

Dorothea — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:39:11 +0000

I vaguely recall reading about a digital-gazetteer project along the lines you suggest. I think it was geographically-limited, though (just one country?), and for the life of me I can’t remember where I saw it.

Might be easier than a GIS approach, might not; I’m not sure.