In honor of Arcade Fire’s Grammy win last night for album of the year, here’s a link to their video/interactive map app for song ‘We Used to Wait’ from The Suburbs. You’ll have to download Google Chrome to experience “The Wilderness Downtown” but it’s worth the couple of seconds it’ll take to do it. As mashable.com put it, “it’s basically one big ball of HTML5/Google Maps/musical goodness.”
Click here (click on link for ‘Archived Program Recording’ in upper right hand corner) to watch a recorded presentation about two exciting digital humanities projects that have been built around GIS and other geospatial technologies.
The presentation, part of the NITLE next Digital Scholarship Seminar Series includes presentations by Scott Nesbit (Assoc. Director of the Digital Scholarship Lab) and Todd Presner (Director, Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature, and Digital Humanities, UCLA) onThe History Engine and Hypercities projects, respectively.
Yesterday was GIS Day – and Bertrand Library celebrated by hosting a student poster display and serving up slices of ‘map’ cake. In case you missed out on the fun, here’s a YouTube video that was created by students at another school to celebrate the occasion.