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Colin Greenstreet replied to the topic Spatial experiment at #maphackathon, Feb 10/11 2017 (TBC) in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 9 years, 1 month agoAccess to full set of Tweets as we shape the #maphackathon
Twitter is a powerful tool and we are using it actively to shape the proposed #maphackathon
Click here to access the top #maphackathon tweets and images.
Click here to access the full set of #maphackathon tweets and images.
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Colin Greenstreet replied to the topic Spatial experiment at #maphackathon, Feb 10/11 2017 (TBC) in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 9 years, 1 month ago#maphackathon datasets on Google drive
We have manually extracted data on English ship movements from witness statements in the English High Court of Admiralty in the 1650s. These data include port departure and arrival dates, allowing computation and visualisation of travel times, dwell times and routes. Data cover ship voyages between 1645…[Read more]
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Colin Greenstreet started the topic Spatial experiment at #maphackathon, Feb 10/11 2017 (TBC) in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 9 years, 2 months agoWe are organising a Friday evening and Saturday morning of spatial experiment #maphackathon in central London on Friday February 10th and Saturday February 11th 2017. We encourage all readers and members of this group to contribute their ideas and to help shape the event.
Datasets will be made available in advance by @marinelivesorg and @cgspen…[Read more]
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John Levin replied to the topic The use of QGIS in historical mapping in the discussion
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Colin Greenstreet replied to the topic How can we find and map C17th Thames shore warehouses? in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 9 years, 2 months agoTwitter exchange with Dr Craig Spence, Saturday December 3rd 2016
Post @Marinelivesorg: Missing Thames infrastructure – Ideas for datamining text/archaeological records to find & map C17th Thames warehouses? #maphackathon
Post @cgspence: @Marinelivesorg my book ‘London in the 1690s’ incs map locating taxed warehouses vaults etc. 4s A…[Read more]
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Colin Greenstreet started the topic Where were the twelve mooring chains in the River Thames? in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPrimary sources
E 367/5903. Burrell: Mooring chains and dues in the river Thames between Bugby’s Hole and London Bridge. Date: 22 Geo.III.
Report from the committee appointed to enquire into the best mode of providing sufficeint accomodation for the increased trade and shipping of the port of London (London, 1796)
“Appendix…[Read more]
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Colin Greenstreet started the topic How can we find and map C17th Thames shore warehouses? in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 9 years, 2 months agoWhat text and archaeological records exist which we could make use of in constructing a map of mid-C17th Thames shoreline warehousing?
No comprehensive study or map have been made of C17th warehousing and other commercial marine infrastructure on the north and south shores of the Thames from London Bridge down to Woolwich. Morgan’s 1682 map…[Read more]
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Colin Greenstreet started the topic The use of QGIS in historical mapping in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 9 years, 2 months agoQGIS is a free open-source Geographical Information System (GIS). It has been developed and is supported by the OSGeo Foundation. The latest version is QGIS 2.18 Las Palmas. It is available for download here.
The development and release history of the system is described in a wikipedia article on QGIS.
The product runs on Linux, Mac OSX,…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Make a Suggestion for the 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Language and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoLSL Language and Society will elect a new Delegate Assembly representative in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to n…[Read more]
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Barbara J. Eckstein deposited Carbon and Conferences (Again): The Austin MLA in the Flood of 2016 in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago“Carbon and Conferences (Again)” offers one person’s experience of trying to get to the Austin MLA conference by a means other than airplanes. It asks fellow MLA members for more collective, mindful attention to the carbon footprint of the conference generally. While acknowledging the intellectual and personal joy in face to face encounters, it…[Read more]
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Hsiang-Hua Melanie Chang deposited Interpretation of Bare and Demonstrative Noun Phrases in the Acquisition of Mandarin in the group
LSL General Linguistics on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoMandarin nominals may appear bare or non-bare in various positions with different interpretations. Questions arise as to how Mandarin-speaking children interpret bare nominals, given that bare nominals can have various interpretations. On the other hand, how do they interpret non-bare nominals, such as demonstrative nominals? This experimental…[Read more]
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Serguei Alex Oushakine deposited Language and Subjectivity: Theories of Formation. in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoThe purpose of this graduate course is to examine key texts of the twentieth century that established the fundamental connection between language structures and practices on the one hand, and the formation of selfhood and subjectivity, on the other. In particular, the course will focus on theories that emphasize the role of formal elements in…[Read more]
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Laila Amine deposited Crossroads of Memory in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoIn the last six years, scholars have engaged with the effects of globalization on the study of collective memory, emphasizing the de-territorialization, de-nationalization of memory cultures. While being attentive to the global circulation and transformation of collective memories, authors in this issue seek to revisit and critique some…[Read more]
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Angus Grieve-Smith replied to the topic CFP: Language Attrition and Loss in Film, Literature, and Popular Culture in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoThanks! Interesting.
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino replied to the topic CFP: Language Attrition and Loss in Film, Literature, and Popular Culture in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoYes, I was notified yesterday.
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Angus Grieve-Smith replied to the topic CFP: Language Attrition and Loss in Film, Literature, and Popular Culture in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoGreat! Have they notified you that your session proposal has been accepted? I have not yet gotten any notification about mine.
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic CFP: Language Attrition and Loss in Film, Literature, and Popular Culture in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoCFP (Conference): Representations of Language Attrition and Loss in Film, Literature, and Popular Culture
Northeastern Modern Language Association, Baltimore, March 23-26, 2017
Deadline: September 30, 2016
The panel seeks to bring together interdisciplinary research papers across, but not limited to, sociolinguistics, cultural studies,…[Read more]
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Heidi Bostic deposited The Humanities Must Engage Global Grand Challenges in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThe humanities must work together with STEM if we are to succeed in articulating relevant, historically informed, and culturally nuanced responses to grand challenges.
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