Let’s meet up, demo our projects, and share secrets. Ultimately we are interested in providing baseline workflows and best practices for geospatial discovery layers for our core digital library collections that can be adapted and customized for digital research projects. I’d like to know how other libraries are handling mapping with Neatline or other open-source tools.
For more context, see a recent Digital Humanities Questions & Answers session: digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/are-any-libraries-using-neatline.
Also, for those of you interested in issues like these, you should consider joining to the GeoHumanities ADHO special interest group: adho.org/announcements/2013/announcing-geohumanities-special-interest-group.
About Michelle Dalmau
I am the Acting Head of Digital Collections Services at the IU Libraries. Previously, I was the Digital Projects Librarian for the Digital Collections Services group and Digital Library Program at the IU Libraries, where I was responsible for coordinating and managing digital library projects with a particular focus on electronic text projects. I have been actively participating the DH community since 2005, but I have contributed to DH-related projects at IU as early as 2002. I am the co-editor of the Victorian Women Writers Project (http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/vwwp/), and participate in many other DH endeavors ... part of the editorial technical staff for DHQ, Co-chair of the TEI Libraries SIG, and other stuffs I can't remember right now.
At Haverford, we’re using Neatline as a stand-alone, non mapping application for now, more similar to the way that David McClure used it for text here dclure.org/essays/more-fun-with-interactive-typesetting-a-coat-by-yeats/ but I have my eye on it for a much larger geospatial project in the future. I’d love to talk through both workflows and best practices as we develop both the Digital Humanities uses of Neatline and a basic campus geospatial infrastructure simultaneously.
I have played around with it with historic photos and historic maps. Want to see what others are doing.
I’d like to learn more about Neatline to see how I can integrate it into visualizations of times/places within digital editions.