Preliminary Class Business
- Preview of readings and practicum for Class 8
- Mock Project Proposal assignment
- Guidelines and Examples
- NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grants (DHAG) Guidelines (you can scale your project for a Level 1 or Level 2 version of this grant)
- RoSE Project example (submitted for earlier version of Level 2 DHAG grant, then called "Digital Humanities Start-up Grants")
- Examples of student mock proposals from 2014 version of this course
- Format of a grant proposal (approximately)
- Abstract
- Narrative
- "Environmental scan"
- Methods & Technology
- Work plan & schedule
- Consider staged or modular work plans, starting with what you or a small group of you could do.
- Budget
- Cf., RoSE Proposal Budget; cf., NEH Digital Advancement Grant sample budget.
- Funding request + "cost share"
- Direct costs + indirect costs
- GSR's vs. RA's
- Hours of work & kinds of work
- Benefits
- Method of project evaluation
- Dissemination
- Sustainability
- (Topic modeling for comparative purposes) (cf., dfr-browser)
1. Our Mapping Practicums
2. Discussion
Materials for Discussion Today
- Focal Readings
- Background: a few pieces to provoke thought about the history and intellectual traditions of mapping:
- Albert Borgmann, Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium (1999) - Introduction
- Fernand Braudel and Annales historiography (e.g., Table of Contents [PDF] from The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1976)
- Michel Foucault, "Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias" [PDF]" (1967)
- Jason Farman, "Map Interfaces and the Production of Locative Media Space" [PDF] (2015)
- Terrigal High School, New South Wales, Australia, "Introduction to Aboriginal Art" [slideshow, PPT] [course password required]
- Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees (Verso, 2005), pp. 35-64
- Ian N. Gregory and David Cooper, "Geographical Technologies and the Interdisciplinary Study of Peoples and Cultures of the Past" [PDF] (2013)
- Ian N. Gregory, "Different Places, Different Stories: Infant Mortality Decline in England and Wales, 1851–1911" [PDF] (2008)
- Zephyr Frank, "Layers, Flows And Intersections: Jeronymo José De Mello And Artisan Life In Rio De Janeiro, 1840s-1880s" [PDF] [paywalled; UCSB students have free access through UCSB Library Proxy server]
- Barbara Piatti, et al., "Mapping Literature: Towards a Geography of Fiction" [PDF] (in Cartography and Art, ed. William Cartwright, et al., 2009) [paywalled; UCSB students have free access through UCSB Library Proxy server]
- See also the project associated with this essay: A Literary Atlas of Europe.
- Other Readings
- Sites to Browse:
- The Spatial History Project (including Richard White, "What is Spatial History?" [2010])
- ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
- HyperCities
- Neatline Projects (see demos on Neatline site)
- Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761
- Google Lit Trips (using the downloadable .kmz files that overlay literary maps over satellite maps requires Google Earth)
- See also Walking Ulysses ("Enter into the world of James Joyce's novel, Ulysses, by following its characters as they walk the streets of Dublin on June 16, 1904")
- David Rumsey, "Reading Historical Maps Historically: How Spatial Technologies Can Enable Close, Distant and Dynamic Interpretations" (opening keynote at DH 2011 conference) (Youtube video; keynote begins at 37 min., 50 sec. in video) (See also David Rumsey Map Collection)
- Maria Popova, "An Atlas of Alternative Maps" (2014)
- John Klima, Project Gallery
- See also Rita Raley, "Statistical Material: Globalization and the Digital Art of John Klima" (2003) [paywalled; UCSB students have free access through UCSB Library Proxy server]