We ask that you familiarize yourself with the programs, centers, and contributions to spatial scholarship of your peers, by exploring the profile pages and linked information available from our list of invited participants. It is our hope that this will help us focus more effectively at SCI, with less of a need for extensive background conversation, and that you will arrive with a strong sense of possible connections to be made.

Please explore: SCI 7 Invited Participants.

Optional Readings

Other readings are optional. Based in part on participant suggestions, we have assembled some links and resources below. Please send further suggestions directly to Bethany Nowviskie.

• Literary Geospaces: Digital Tools Help Put Literature in its Place, Chronicle of Higher Education, 1 August 2008
• Tooling Up for Digital Histories wiki from Stanford’s Spatial History Project, including the Toolbox for Digital and Spatial Humanities.
• Jessop, Martyn. The Inhibition of Geographical Information in Digital Humanities Scholarship. Please let us know if you have difficulty accessing this article, published in Literary and Linguistic Computing, April 2008 (vol. 23: 39-50).
• The Beginning of the Road: High-tech computer wizardry and good old-fashioned historical sleuthing are re-creating the lost world of Washington’s origins. Washington Post Magazine 31 August 2008.
• Resource Page (including teaching materials and tools) from Spatial@UCSB
• Knowles, A. and Hillier, A., eds. Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS are Changing Historical Scholarship. ESRI Press, 2008. (Hear a podcast on this book with Anne Knowles and Amy Hillier.)
• Lund, J. “GIS and spatial thinking in the arts, humanities, and languages.” in Understanding Place: GIS and Mapping across the Curriculum. Lund, J. and Sinton, D., eds. ESRI Press, 2006. (This book includes “What is GIS? A very brief description for the newly curious” by Sinton and Lund. A podcast with the editors is also available.)
• David Schloen, “Towards a Shared Ontology and Corresponding Database Schemas for the Humanities.” (MS Word doc)