Bucknell faculty have long had an interest in grounding their research efforts locally - using the physical, cultural, historical and sociological landscapes of the Susquehanna Valley region as a living laboratory. The two videos below feature Prof. Katherine Faull and student Emily Bitely '11 talking about the role of GIS in two such projects - the Stories of the Susquehanna, … [Read more...]
PhillyHistory + augmented reality as a smartphone app
This is the first in a series of posts about several exciting new projects that my old friends and Philly GIS happy hour buddies are up to at Azavea. The first is funded by an NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant that was awarded to the Philadelphia Department of Records to create a smartphone app that will enable users to view historic photos from PhillyHistory.org draped … [Read more...]
How big is it really?
Back in December I posted about an NPR story about map scale. I got so excited about the baseball on the moon map that I neglected to point out the other really interesting link from the story - to the BBC Dimensions website. Dimensions (or, 'howbigisitreally') has a tool that lets you plug in any zip code or location and then choose from a list of events, places or things … [Read more...]
Digital Gazetteer of the Song Dynasty
There are a million reasons I can think of for wanting to be in Santa Barbara, CA this week but one of them is that I'd love to attend UC Santa Barbara's 'Think Spatial' forum. This week's presentation features Ruth Mostern from UC Merced discussing her use of Google Earth for teaching undergraduate history courses. In Mostern's upper division history course about the Silk … [Read more...]
Ask the expert: Katie Faull on maps, Moravian diaries and Native American history
In the BU homepage's February 'Ask the Expert' interview, Prof. Katie Faull discusses her research on the 18th Century Moravian settlers and Native Americans who inhabited the Susquehanna watershed region. With the help of her research assistant, Emily Bitely '11, Prof. Faull has made extensive use of GIS in reconstructing 18th Century landscapes of the Susquehanna. Read the … [Read more...]