Text Mapping as Modelling

DHSI 2018 Øyvind Eide

oeide@uni-koeln.de @oeide

http://oeide.no/ http://modmebo.hypotheses.org

Universität zu Köln Digital Humanities – Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung

Prof. Dr. Eide

Outline for today •  Introductions •  What is a map •  What is a text •  What is modelling •  Mapping as modelling •  Introduction to Neatline •  Neatline training •  Discussion •  Preparing for the rest of the week

Universität zu Köln Universität zu Köln Digital Humanities – Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung

Prof. Dr. Eide

Mapping as modelling

Charles Minard's 1869 chart showing the number of men in Napoleon’s 1812 Russian campaign army, their movements, as well as the temperature they encountered on the return path. Lithograph, 62 x 30 cm. Wikimedia Commons. URL: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Minard.png

Mapping in the humanities •  Mapping historical

sources •  Modelling historical

sources •  Maps as models •  Maps and

narratives •  Digital maps •  Deep mapping •  Online mapping

Universität zu Köln Universität zu Köln Digital Humanities – Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung

Prof. Dr. Eide

•  Interactive mapping •  How to Lie with

Maps (Monmonier) •  Mapping as

modelling •  Modelling as a

learning strategy •  Critical assessment

–  semiotic problems – media differences