QGIS UK Scotland 6 Lang

Anouk Lang's presentation on how she uses QGIS in the digital humanities classroom to map narrative. Presented at 6th Scottish QGIS UK user group meeting.

Transcript

1. Mapping Narrative QGIS in the Humanities Classroom Anouk Lang Department of English, University of Edinburgh anouk.lang@ed.ac.uk | @a_e_lang
2. The context: build a GIS of the places mentioned in a biography of Jean Rhys and use this to analyse the role played by space in the text
3. Geoparsing with the Edinburgh Geoparser (with thanks to Claire Grover for writing me a custom XSLT stylesheet)
4. Data preparation: distinguishing between places elsewhere and places experienced
5. Reflecting on the use of spatial references in the Rhys biography
6. Visualisation as gratification
7. Process and pedagogy
9. Anouk Lang | aelang.net @a_e_lang | anouk.lang@ed.ac.uk Many thanks to Tom Armitage and Ian Holmes Credits: The Edinburgh Geoparser www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/software/geoparser/ QGIS www.qgis.org Cartography © OpenStreetMap contributors www.openstreetmap.org/copyright