This document discusses using crowdsourcing and open source tools to bring geography back into humanities research. It describes several existing tools like Zotero for capturing citations, NYPL Map Rectifier for georeferencing historical maps, and OpenStreetMap for collaborative mapping. The document advocates applying best practices from collaborative projects like Wikipedia, such as public editing, identity profiles, revision history, and change tracking to build "Open Historical Maps". The goal is to create structured schemas for users to collaboratively annotate maps, resolve disputes, and disambiguate geographic and temporal information.
3. How to Bring Geography Back into Humanities?
Back of the Book Problem
Maps as Illustrations, not Arguments
Web of References and Locations in Research
Geography and Bibliography as Tacit Knowledge
History, Ethnography and GIS
Disappearance of Geography from Social Science
Lack of Training and Technical Dependence
High Social Theory versus Empiricism of GIS
4. History as New Media
Digital Humanities and History
Web Archives and Digital Libraries
Amateur Enthusiasm and Hacking
Open Source Software Development
http://chnm.gmu.edu
5. History Web + Geospatial Web
History Web
Zotero 1.0 – Capturing Citations and Publishing Bibliographies
Zotero 2.0 – Sharing Collections and Scholarly Collaboration on the Web
Zotero Maps
Geospatial Web
Gutenkarte – Geographic Text Browser
NYPL Map Rectifier – Georeferencing Historical Maps
NYPL Map Digitizer – Vectorizing and Annotating Historical Layers
14. 8 Reasons Some Wikis Work
1. Clear goal
2. Worth doing
3. Objective standards
4. Made from small pieces
5. Each piece is useful
6. Segmented subjects
7. Personally useful
8. Enjoyable work
15. Collaborative Best Practices
Public Editing
Identity
Profile
Keeping Score
Revision History
Commentary
Provenance
(Geo)RSS Feeds
Change Tracking
Rollback
16. Open Historical Maps
Crowd Control
Curators Designing Historical Schemas
Versioning and Resolving Disputes
Time Travel
Time in GIS
Chronological Annotation of Features
Disambiguation
Geographic, Toponymic and Chronological Ambiguity
Open Gazeteers