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    Visualizing a Spatial Archive: GIS, Digital Humanities, and Relational Space


    Foley, Ronan and Murphy, Rachel (2015) Visualizing a Spatial Archive: GIS, Digital Humanities, and Relational Space. Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies, 2015 (Oct.). ISSN 2372-2231

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    Abstract

    Geography matters! In any reading of literature or history, paper or digital, our imaginations are often invoked through a spatial sense. In a country where the importance of dinnseanchas, or “place lore,” remains a significant contemporary component, a reading of place regularly features across the multiple strands of Irish Studies.[1] From Heaney’s poetry to the novels of Sebastian Barry, place and a sense of place are ever-present in how stories and literary ideas are presented, received, and interpreted.[2] History too, in its archives and methods of study, has always happened somewhere and in that sense has always been explicitly emplaced. Given the broad theme of this issue—querying whether Digital Humanities offers better ways of realizing traditional Humanities goals or has the capacity to change understandings of Humanities goals altogether—it is useful to consider this question empirically against the increase in new digital forms of spatial information.[

    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: Visualizing; Spatial Archive; GIS; Digital Humanities; Relational Space;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography
    Item ID: 7067
    Depositing User: Dr. Ronan Foley
    Date Deposited: 04 Apr 2016 11:13
    Journal or Publication Title: Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies
    Publisher: Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies
    Refereed: Yes
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    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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