I\u2019ve read and reread Yuan\u2019s chapter \u201cMapping Text\u201d and studied the figures \u2013 and yet it remains so abstract to me.\u00a0 I hope that our hands-on activity in class will give me the knowledge I need to understand what exactly GIS is!<\/p>\n
In reading, I realized that my primary definitions of map<\/em>, text<\/em>, value<\/em>, and place<\/em> cannot be transferred to the same words within the article; these words have such a different (broader yet more specific?) meaning within the field of DH.\u00a0 Text<\/em> is more than a literary work (duh, Katie); and map<\/em>, both a verb and a noun, is not just an indicator of county lines in the state of Tennessee \u2013 in fact, a map could just be dots and vectors, no need to indicate where I-440 and I-65 intersect.\u00a0 (I know TN was nowhere mentioned in the article; I\u2019m just illustrating my narrow idea of maps before reading the article). \u00a0Place<\/em> is not the same as a location … but a location becomes a place when associated with more than just geographic positioning (121)?\u00a0 Values<\/em> are any key words or significant information that the mapper (cartographer?) wants recorded.\u00a0 Maybe?<\/p>\n With this vague understanding of GIS, the applications to my teaching might be \u201csimplistic\u201d and uninteresting (118) \u2013 but I still think it would work!\u00a0 I think GIS could be very <\/em>helpful in organizing narratives with an abundance of and interconnectedness between characters, such as in Les Faux-monnayeurs<\/em> by Gide, La Princesse de Cl\u00e8ves <\/em>by Mme de la Fayette, and La Com\u00e9die humaine <\/em>byHuHHHh <\/em>Blazac. \u00a0One could even use GIS to perhaps trace the effects of genetics within the Rougon-Macquart novels by Zola.\u00a0 Among early French language learners, Jules Verne\u2019s Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours<\/em> would be fun both to read and then to use GIS to track the destinations.<\/p>\n My research too could only benefit from GIS.\u00a0 I think<\/em> I am going to be researching applications of Standards within higher education classrooms \u2013 so I could use mapping to see which SES backgrounds or which geographic regions incorporate which Standards…\u00a0 or more broadly, what factors influence a department\u2019s or teacher\u2019s Standards within the classroom, and then which Standards are emphasized and which are neglected … \u00a0I\u2019m not too sure right now, but I know that there\u2019s a definite application!<\/p>\n In conclusion, I appreciated Yuan\u2019s open and multiple acknowledgements of the gaps and shortcomings of GIS in its current state.\u00a0 And yet, Yuan confidently points to the \u201cnext step\u201d, to the future and the possibilities that could be realized with more research and more practice.\u00a0 Although we\u2019re not developing tools or writing programs (speaking for myself here), I believe our DH class is nonetheless contributing to the field by promoting the study of GIS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve read and reread Yuan\u2019s chapter \u201cMapping Text\u201d and studied the figures \u2013 and yet it remains so abstract to me.\u00a0 I hope that our hands-on activity in class will give me the knowledge I need to understand what exactly GIS is! In reading, I realized that my primary definitions of map, text, value, and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-tools"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/ramey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}