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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

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

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

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