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Text Mapping as Modelling Deep maps and mapping of texts Universitt zu Kln Digital Humanities Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung Prof. Dr. Eide Mapping of texts Maps based on narrative (found in texts)


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Text Mapping as Modelling

Deep maps and mapping

  • f texts

Universität zu Köln Digital Humanities – Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung

  • Prof. Dr. Eide
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Mapping of texts

  • Maps based on narrative (found in texts)

– qualitative or quantitative – close or distant reading

  • Detecting place references

– place names – other referring string, e.g., “3 miles down the river from the bridge”

  • Finding coordinates

– pre-existing maps (onto map) – create new map (as map) – real or fictitious world

  • Creating map layer

Universität zu Köln Universität zu Köln Digital Humanities – Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung

  • Prof. Dr. Eide
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Deep maps

  • The deep map as a text

– Heat Moon, William Least. Prairyerth : (a Deep Map). Boston, 1991 – may contain maps, but the core is textual narratives and descriptions

  • Digital deep maps

– spatial narratives – multimedia/multimodal story telling – combination of space based and time based media – locatedness of events – time aspect of space – many examples found on the Neatline webpage

Universität zu Köln Universität zu Köln Digital Humanities – Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung

  • Prof. Dr. Eide
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Questions for discussion

  • Location in texts
  • What is mapping?
  • What will it say to map a novel?
  • Short stories vs. novels
  • Drama
  • Mapping poetry?
  • Background maps
  • Methods

Universität zu Köln Universität zu Köln Digital Humanities – Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung

  • Prof. Dr. Eide