Schedule

Introduction, requirements, syllabus, methodologies, making a site

Beyond Way-finding: Maps as narrative and interpretative tools | Maps for social justice

Placing Segregation, Tennessee's Black Neighborhoods, Redlining in New Deal America, Palestine Open Maps, Torn Apart, Finding Tovaangar

Materials:  Prunel-Joyeux, “Do Maps Lie?” (Artl@s) (3 pages) | Krupar, Map Power and Map Methodologies for Social Justice (11 pages) 

Watch: Do Maps Lie? 

Create: a Google site and add the address here. Video guidance for Google Sites here and here.

Visualization, Mapping environments, Making our first map. 

Watch:  Geospatial Revolution Episodes 1-5 (1-4 are a bit dated from 2011, but still interesting; each episode is about 15-20 minutes) TW: the new part 5 about COVID mapping contains mentions of death and burial 

Read: "Your Car is Definitely Watching You"

Listen: BBC 4 “The Digital Human: Maps” (starts 1:20, 30 mins)

Create: an account at OpenStreetMap.

Explore: Kepler.gl

Skim: What are the CSV / JSON / geoJSON formats? What is the KML format? UMap Guide

Mapping Datasets: UAE fortifications (Wikipedia), Baqalas of Abu Dhabi (Wrisley), Race Film Database (UCLA), Five Star Hotels in Abu Dhabi (Mokhtar), Hotel Apartments in Abu Dhabi (AD government), Bangalore Neighborhoods (Kaggle), BLM protests: Evidence that Police-Caused Deaths Predict Protest Activity (Trump et al), Places of Worship in New Orleans (Louisiana) 1941, Largest Cities in the World (Wikipedia/ElKhatib), Main Cities of the UAE (Wikipedia/Wrisley), World Fairs (Hixson)

UMap (fr | de | co) | UMap tutorial (20 mins, ElKhatib)

Response 1 (on your site) - see rubric and guidelines (due 7-21 September)  What are the main reasons to make a map? What do different people use to make maps? What are the benefits and potential drawbacks? How does data make its way onto a map? What potential do maps of social and cultural life have? Feel free to use any of the materials of the course (readings, videos, podcasts, datasets) so far. 

Prepare: We will be talking about "spatial humanities" projects next week.  Look through the choices (under materials next week) and pick one to work on with a partner. You can register your choice here. 

"Spatial Humanities": Thick mapping | Deep mapping 

Skim: "Building the Invisible College" (ch 4, Crymble) and "Mapping" (Wilson, in Drive) (Tues); Varieties of Deep Maps (Bodenhamer, in Drive) (thurs)

Question: Thinking about Crymble's notion of the "invisible college" what would you like to learn how to do that university is not currently teaching you? (Tuesday)

Project Presentations (Thursday) - pre-recorded video or in class (max 5 minutes) maximum 3 slides

Projects to choose from: Slave Revolt in Jamaica | The Confederate Streets of South Carolina | Authorial London | Las Calles de las Chicas (in Spanish and English)| LOTR Map | Soviet military mapping of the world | Queering the Map | OpenGulf maps | Black Belt Brooklyn | The Social Maps of Port Said | Panorama: An Atlas of US History | Mapping the Mahjar | MapLesotho | Mapping Emotions in Victorian London | Mapping Shakespeare’s Plays | Going to the Show | Mozart, Marx and a Dictator | Listening to the Iraqis in NYC | HarassMap Arab World | HarassMap Mumbai | Amerasia: An Inquiry into Early Modern Imaginative Geography | Mapping Amazon | Greening of Sir Bani Yas | Brussels Soundmap | Icelandic Saga Map | New Orleans Prohibition Raids | Musqueam Place Name Map | Enslaved by the Church, Sold for the Republic | Freya Stark: The Southern Gates of Arabia | Mapping Mount Everest | Mapping Gothic France | Btselem | In and of the Syrian Community | Dibujando el mapa de las desigualdades sociales durante la pandemia | Itineraires des voyageurs [Reiseverläufe] (in French or German) | The Culture and Communities Mapping Project | Drone Wars | An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2020 US Election | Smell Map Amsterdam | Mapping Philippine Material Culture | The Negro Motorist Green Book | Mapping the Gay Guides   | Tejiendo la ciudad | Detroitography | Tabletop Debates: Mapping Molokhia | Palestine Remembered | People's Atlas of Nuclear Colorado | The Decolonial Atlas

Guiding questions for presentation: (1) What is the purpose of making these maps? (2) What elements of human "space" or human culture are represented as being spatial? (3) What kind of information is attached to location? (4) does the project tell you about who was involved? or the number of people / the labor involved? (5) how was the data for the project sourced? (6) is the data of the project accessible for reuse? 

Response 2 - Take your project presentation and make it into a response on your site. You can include your slides if you like or reuse them as static visuals. (due 16-27 September).

Open Map Data and its Gaps:  OSM | HOTOSM | OVERPASS API 

Materials: Visualizing Wikipedia edits| Maps as "live" objects| OSM map features | OSM Analytics | Twelve Yale-NUS students participate in Inaugural Mapathon (The Octant) | "Participatory Mapping" (Mapping for Rights) | "Participatory Mapping" (Healthy Urbanism) | HOT activates Pidie Earthquake Tasking Manager 

Read: Why would you use OSM is there is Google? | Inside the 'Wikipedia of Maps', Tensions Grow Over Corporate Influence (Bloomberg) 

Code: Overpass API

Watch: Extracting Data from OSM Using the Overpass API (9 mins) 

Exercises OSM: Armchair Mapping (Tues), Overpass API (Thurs) ; Getting a Bounding Box (Klokan)

OVERPASS API to UMAP (trial with instructions for Assignment 1) 

office=diplomatic | historic=archaeological_site | tourism=attraction | tourism=hotel | amenity=?  

Asynchronous work on assignment 1 (Thurs)

Working with primary sources and extracting information

Read: Data Organization in Spreadsheets (Broman & Woo); Data Modeling in a Digital Humanities Context (Flanders/Jannidis) ; Why We Should Digitize Historical Newspapers; NewsEye; US Newspapers Collections at the Library of Congress

On Zanzibar: The Sultanate of Zanzibar | Zanzibar (Wikipedia) | 

Sample newspapers: El Mundo (San Juan, PR); Gazette of Zanzibar

Hands on: Working from lists of addresses or locations: GeoCode with Awesome Table 

Sample pages: Achilles Painter; Railway Stations in Milan; Lists of Colleges and Universities in Tanzania; List of Companies in the UAE; List of World Heritage Sites in India; List of Mountains in China ; List of Mines in Brazil 

Sample pages from the Gazette (Thurs): 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 

Notebook: Incorporating the Spatial into Coding with an IDE | Geocoding with Nominatim (Thurs)

Visit to library to learn about our source (Archives and Special Collections) - don't bring lots of stuff as you will have to leave it in a locker. No food or drink. (Tues) 

Explore: Gazette for Zanzibar

Learning to Use Lingscape (Thurs) 

Assignment 2 (due 14 October-3 November) : You will take one portion of the digitized Zanzibar Gazette and build a small geolocated dataset, geocode and visualize it. Some volumes of this historical newspaper are owned by the NYUAD ASC, the Zanzibar Gazette from the early 20th c. Detailed instructions will be available on the site.

Studying the Source in Depth (Tues) - potential datasets 

Guest speaker "Mapping Burqas" Manami Goto (Thurs, 1st half)

Skim: Representing the Emirati Nation through Burquʿ 

AGOL & Storymaps  (Thurs, 2nd half) 

Check out some of these story maps at the ESRI story map gallery. How do they balance telling a story with the map with telling a story with words?

Here is a selection from the gallery above (but feel free to browse for yourself):

The Edges of (all) Life

The River Roads of India

Transforming Lives: Ascend West and Central Africa

In and of the Syrian Community

Black Belt Brooklyn

Infectious Diseases in the Adriatic Commune of Dubrovnic

Building datasets / Visualization of your datasets with Storymaps

Read: Crowdsourcing in Research: 5 Successful Projects Made Possible by the Crowd (Baidakova) ; Citizen Humanities (Heinisch et al);  "Participatory Methods and Citizen Science" (Geoghegan, in drive) 

Explore: What's on the Menu? (NYPL); Dish by Dish; Ottoman Turkish Crowdsourcing

Pick a project: Zooinverse (Arts | History | Language)

• What does the project aim to accomplish. 

• What tasks do the participants carry out? 

• Can participants see the work of others? 

Data Collection with Lingscape

Read: Linguistic Landscapes (Carr, Oxford Bibliographies) |Mapping the Linguistic Landscapes of the Marshall Islands (Buchstaller/Alvanides) | Digital Spatial Practices and Linguistic Landscaping in Beirut (Wrisley) | Exploring the Linguistic Landscape of Cities Through Crowdsourced Data (Purschke) | Mapping the Blurred Lines of Beirut's Languages (Waddell)

Explore: Linguistic Landscapes of Beirut | Lingscape 

Data Collection with Lingscape

Guest speaker : Corinne Stokes (NYUAD) on Linguistic Landscapes (Tuesday)

Assignment 3 (due 13 December) : You should choose some aspect of the data you collected, possibly combined with what there is already in Lingscape and analyze the data, making at least one interactive map of it. Detailed instructions will be available on the site under guidelines. 

Working with Lingscape in Detail / Building an Interactive Map for Assignment #3

Link to recording for demo

Extraction, Analysis and Visualization of Lingscape data