Preserving and promoting archival and special collections Arjun Sabharwal (2015) Preface The paradigm shifts spanning especially the past two centuries—from the French Revolution to the present (Cook, 2013)—have ushered in new and more exciting (as well as challenging) times for archives, bringing greater visibility and interaction with the profession. The third and fourth paradigms in […]
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Introduction General OH Stories, formed by memory and performed in narrative either resonate and engage, are possibly preserved and imprinted in memory, or they go unremembered and are lost to time. History is made up of the stories of humanity, based on fragments preserved in time. Historians, folklorists, digital humanists, ethnologists, anthropologists, and archivists of […]
The spatial metaphor gains stronger definition as a specific marketing of memory in situ. In many cases, descriptions of memory in spatial terms suffer from lack of specificity. Pierre Nora Memory places/sites: the loss of colective memory by individuals living in contemporary societies. Memory is living, vulnerable, changeable, and connects generations through precarious rituals, traditions, […]
The predominant uses of mapping and spatial information necessarily lead us to a radical re assesment of the nature of representation. Diegetic space can be mapped onto geographic location. Can this emergent space for art and performance create new perceptions of space and place in an audience? New mobile technologies seem to offer a unique […]
David J. Bodenhamer The map evoked memories in the form of explanations about wether and why this neighborhood or that place had the character ascribed to it. (97) Stories took life in the map (98) People experienced the power of the map to evoke history and memory, to prompt narrative, to define community (99) GIS […]
Introducción El poder del mapa para mostrar información cartográficamente, de una manera en que de perspectivas frescas y nuevas miradas en el estudio de la cultura y la sociedad. Para los humanistas el espacio no es solo espacio físico sino espacio ocupado. Este espacio ocupado, o lugar, existe no solamente en el mundo real sino […]
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Narrating Space and Place
David J. Bodenhamer Autor Profesor de Historia y y director ejecutivo de The Polis Center, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis Contexto del giro espacial Entendido generalizadamente o en un marco grande como el momento en el que se da mayor importancia y atención al concepto de lugar. Desde ahí, nuestra conciencia sobre el espacio y lugar […]
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Mapping the Geospatial Turn
Todd Presner and David Shepard Spatial turn Emerge el concepto de geohumanidades, la investigación basada en el lugar y en el punto de intersección entre la geógrafía y las humanidades. Reconceptualización del significado de “lugar” en relación a la narrativa, prácticas de representación y tecnologías digitales. El espacio y el tiempo son construcciones sociales y […]
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Animating the Archive
Autor: Jeffrey SchnappPublicación aquí Creo que, como María José, me enamoré de Jeffrey Schnapp. Comencé a leer este texto por recomendación en Fundamentos de las Humanidades Digitales, sin embargo lo traigo a la tesis por la cantidad de contenido pertinente que encontré frente a mi tema de investigación. Archivo: “corpus de material del pasado que […]
Capítulo de Digital_Humanities Intro “We also believe that humanists must actively engage with, design, create, critique, and, finally, hack the environments and technologies that facilitate this research as we render this world-as-a-world to help us produce knowledge about who we are, where we live, and what that means […] The purpose of this chapter is […]