Week 6
11 (Tu 1 Oct) Georeferencing maps with MapWarper (with Taylor) – in C2 329
In advance of today’s class, please sign up for a MapWarper account.
Reminder: Photogrammar, Digital Atlas of New Haven
Why did the map creators use georeferenced layers? What do they add to the project?
We’ll start with a map from 1900 Lower Manhattan. We will do a hands on. Some directions can be found in the drive.
Blog 2 Choose one of the projects that you and your partner worked on. Write a blog posting of 400-500 words in which you explain where the data comes/seems to come from, how the map tells a story, what it achieves and what its shortcomings might be said to be. Be sure to include screenshots. If you would prefer to work in a Google doc first and then publish to WordPress, you might try one of the many plugins that allow such publishing. Read this article for more information. (due 16 October)
12 (Th 3 Oct) Comparative georeferencing with ArcMap — in GIS Lab, C2 303.
Refer to the workshop materials in Drive.
ArcGIS is accessible from the locations on campus found on this list.
Optional project ideation session #4: Sun 6 Oct 1200-115 : Bring a draft of your idea for the final project and ideate together.
Week 7
13 (Tu 8 Oct) Class will not be held today. Since NYUAD will be hosting a conference on Global Shakespeare and the Digital Humanities (7-9 October), today’s class will be an opportunity for you to attend one of the talks below and write an optional blog posting (if higher in grade, it can replace any others this term).
Lectures of relevance to the course include (all take place in A6 009, except MacKay’s lecture which will be in the large A6 auditorium):
7 Oct 930-1015 Susan Bennett (Calgary), “Rethinking Global Shakespeare and the Digital Archive”
7 Oct 1130-1215 Daniel Shore (Georgetown) “Shakespeare’s Idiom: Combinatorial Creativity Across Languages”
7 Oct 330-415 Kristen Highland (Sharjah) “Hamlet in the Digital Age”
7 Oct, 630-8 Ellen MacKay (U Chicago), “Not without qualms: Shakespeare, Digitization and Critical Making” register here (food after)
8 Oct 130-215 Meaghan Brown (Folger Library) “Mapping Shakespeare’s Contemporaries: Early Modern Drama’s Global Stage”
8 Oct 330–415 Sixta Quassdorf (St. Gallen) “HyperHamlet: A Database of Quotations from and Allusions to Shakespeare’s Most Famous Tragedy”
8 Oct 415-500 David Wrisley (NYUAD) “Accessing Global Shakespeares through Re-Translation and Visualization”
9 Oct 930-1015 Cyrus Patell (NYUAD) “Mapping NYUAD’s Global Shakespeare Project”
9 Oct 230-315 Jan Rybicki (Pedagogical University of Kraków) “The Stylometry of Shakespeare in (Polish) Translation”
9 Oct 315-400 Anupam Basu (Washington University) “From Access to Analysis: Scale and the Digital Turn”
Optional Blog 3a: Write a posting about the lecture you attended. What were some of the main points? What kinds of insights do the speakers provide about thinking about Shakespeare and his translators/performers through a digital lens? How has Shakespeare been “turned into data?” What do you think about studying Shakespeare and his reception around the world? How does the argument of the author of the paper compare to what we have done in class? (due date 20 October)
14 (Th 10 Oct) Comparative georeferencing with ArcMap — in GIS Lab, C2 303.
We will geo-reference using another more complex tool, ArcMap, 4 maps of Mumbai in 1893, 1909, 1924, 1933 (resources in Drive).
ArcGIS is accessible from the locations on campus found on this list.
No class: 7 week exams and fall break: 14-21 Oct If you stay in Abu Dhabi, be on the look out for potential culture mapping projects. Before you go be sure to choose the final topic for your Zotero bibliography, find 10 relevent articles and communicate the link to the course instructor.
Week 9
(Tu 22 Oct) No class. Classes meet on a Sunday schedule
15 (Th 24 Oct) Continued Georeferencing and feature extraction from maps — in GIS Lab, C2 303.
We will do an example of feature extraction (tracing lines, polygons, dots on a map) in ArcMap using our maps of Mumbai. This is turning raster data into vector data. Then we will do a hands on in pairs with this map of caravan routes in Abu Dhabi. This exercise will show you how to create some portable lines and polygons for your projects in ArcGIS Online.
Blog 3: Reproduce the ArcMap geo-referencing exercise for two of the maps of Mumbai. Choose at least three of the four maps of Mumbai (already geo-referenced by Taylor and located in the exercise folders). Do some research on the Internet about the city of Mumbai to read about urban change in the 20th century. Write a blog posting in which you focus on one or two ways in which the city is represented in a different way on those three maps. Use one of the additional maps found in Wikimedia for your comparison. ArcGIS is accessible from the locations on campus found on this list. Be sure to include screenshots and transparency from ArcMap that make your point effectively. (due 10 November) NB: You may not opt out of this blog as one of the “cancellable” grades.
Week 10 Collective project on Little Syria neighborhood
16 (Tu 29 Oct) Collective Project Work – organizing data, project plan
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17 (Th 31 Oct) Collective Project Work – geocoding addresses (Jupyter)
Optional project ideation session #3: Sun 3 Nov 1200-115 : Bring materials for the Collective Project and we will work on them together.
Week 9 Finishing collective work
18 (Tu 5 Nov) Collective Project Work
19 (Th 7 Nov) Collective Project Work – finishing up making maps
Blog on Collective Project.