Readings

• Richard White, “What is Spatial History?” Stanford University Spatial History Project (2010). http://www.stanford.edu/group/spatialhistory/cgi-bin/site/pub.php?id=29
• Mark Monmonier, How to Lie with Maps, 2nd edition (Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1996).
• Pamela Fletcher and Anne Helmreich, with David Israel and Seth Erickson, “Local/Global: Mapping Nineteenth-Century London’s Art Market,” Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide 11:3 (Autumn 2012). http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/index.php/autumn12/fletcher-helmreich-mapping-the-london-art-market
• Anne Knowles, “A Cutting-Edge Second Look at the Battle of Gettysburg,” Smithsonian Magazine (June 27, 2013). http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/A-Cutting-Edge-Second-Look-at-the-Battle-of-Gettysburg.html [Online interactive map, with Dan Miller, International Mapping Associates (Alex Tait, Tim Montenyohl, Judy Nielsen), and ESRI (Allen Carroll, Lee Bock, James Cardona), funded by Smithsonian Enterprises.]

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Activities

Morning (9am to 12pm)

• Discussion of GeoSpatial Art History
• Digital Methods: Mapping and visualizing change over time using Google Map Engine Lite, and creating datasets for use in Google Fusion Tables
• Hands-on Session: Create a map with Google Map Engine Lite that plots multiple locations using different pin types and layers.
• Break for lunch at Noon

Afternoon (1pm to 4pm)

• Hands-on Session: Georectify a map using NYPL’s Map Warper
• Hands-on Session: StoryMapsJS
  • StoryMap Gigapixel Image URLS for experimenting
• Hands-on Session: Install Geolocation on Omeka sites
• Close 4pm. Bus: 4:15pm

Homework

• Blog about the ways that spatial humanities techniques might influence your scholarship.

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Sites

• Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Albrecht Dürer’s trip to the Netherlands, 1520-1521 (Google Earth download): http://michellesmithcollaboratory.umd.edu/sites/michellesmithcollaboratory.umd.edu/files/Albrecht%20Durer%27s%20Trip%20to%20the%20Netherlands%20in%201520-1.kmz
• Mapping Titian, http://www.mappingtitian.org/
• Mapping Gothic Francehttp://mappinggothic.org/
• Rome Reborn: http://romereborn.frischerconsulting.com/

Tools

• Google Maps [New] (Documentation)
• Google Fusion Table [via Google Drive] (Documentation)
• Georeferencer (Old Maps Online): http://www.georeferencer.org/
• NYPL Map Warper: http://maps.nypl.org/warper
• StoryMap.js: http://storymap.knightlab.com/
  • StoryMap Gigapixel Image URLS for experimenting
• Geolocation for Omeka, with Documentation

Reference

• Jo Guldi, “Spatial Turn in Art History,” Spatial Humanities http://spatial.scholarslab.org/spatial-turn/the-spatial-turn-in-art-history/index.html
• “These Maps Show How Slavery Expanded Across the United States” Lincoln Mullen on Smithsonian.com  http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/maps-reveal-slavery-expanded-across-united-states-180951452/?no-ist
• David Rumsey Maps: http://www.davidrumsey.com/
• Old Maps Online: http://oldmapsonline.org/

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