Week 6

Maps as Interfaces / Mapping Collections

READINGS

1. *Johanna Drucker, “Interface and Interpretation,” Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production (2014), 138-152
2. Photogrammar
   1. Taylor Arnold, Stacey Maples, Lauren Tilton, and Laura Wexler, “Uncovering Latent Metadata in the FSA-OWI Photographic Archive,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 011, no. 2 (March 12, 2017) [focus on section on map]
   2. Taylor Arnold, Nathaniel Ayers, Justin Madron, Robert Nelson, and Lauren Tilton, “Visualizing a Large Spatiotemporal Collection of Historic Photography with a Generous Interface,” 5th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities, September 4, 2020.
      1. New site
3. Felicity McWilliams, “A Sense of Place: Digitally mapping museum collections.” Journal of Museum Ethnography, no. 27 (2014): 46–62
   1. Museum of English Rural Life, Bucklebury collections, Historypin
4. Digital Scholarship Lab, American Panorama: Overland Trails

SUGGESTED PROJECTS

• Museum interfaces [review all three]:
  • Royal Collections
  • Penn Museum
  • British Films
• Refugee Map (Weiner Holocaust Museum)
• Discover New York City Landmarks

TOOLS

• HistoryPin
• Omeka, with Geolocation plugin
• Omeka S, with Mapping module