Announcing Neatline 2.0.2!
Today we’re pleased to announce the release of Neatline 2.0.2! This is a maintenance release that adds a couple of minor features and fixes some bugs we’ve rooted up in the last few weeks: Fixes a bug...
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Mapping Crowd Sourced Bicycle Data
Background Charlottesville is not the easiest place to ride a bicycle. There are obstacles beyond the narrowness of the streets. Let’s take a look at a few of these. Cville street grid overlaid on...
View ArticleNITLE Presentation on Geotemporal Storytelling with Neatline
About this time last year, David McClure and I had a great conversation with the folks from the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) about geotemporal storytelling with...
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2013 GIS Day – Wednesday, November 20th, 2013
In honor of GIS Day 2013, the Scholars’ Lab at UVa Library would like to invite you to participate in our celebration on November 20th. Starting at 1:30PM in the Scholars’ Lab, there will be a round of...
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GIS Day 2013
November 20, 2013 was GIS Day. In our annual tradition here in the Scholars’ Lab, we hosted a round of lighting talks with a variety of speakers including several groups from the Shenandoah Valley...
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Neighborhoods of San Francisco
[Cross-posted from dclure.org] View the Exhibit Built on the Stamen Toner layer. Back in October, about a month after moving from Scholars’ Lab HQ in Virginia out to Menlo Park (my partner started a...
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Map Sleuthing in Africa
One of the many fun things we do in the Scholars’ Lab is help people find geographic datasets. Yes, these are geographic datasets via srh.noaa.gov Folks use geographic datasets to make maps and for...
View ArticleSpring 2014 Scholars’ Lab GIS Workshop Series
All sessions are one hour and assume attendees have no previous experience using GIS. Sessions will be hands-on with step-by-step tutorials with expert assistance. All sessions will be taught on...
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Project Gemini over Baja California
[Cross-posted from dclure.org] Launch the Exhibit A couple weeks ago, somewhere in the middle of a long session of free-association link hopping on Wikipedia, I stumbled into a cluster of articles...
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Creating themes for individual Neatline exhibits
tldr: Neatline makes it possible to create separate themes for individual exhibits, which is useful if you want to host a collection of self-contained Neatline projects on a single site. To get...
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Plane Table Mapping aka Instant Gratification Mapping
“Plane table mapping is the most interesting of all to do. One can hardly browse through an account of its various operations without wishing to go directly into the field and do them.” – Down To...
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A (Digital) Declaration of Independence
[Cross-posted from dclure.org] Launch the Exhibit Way back in the spring of 2012, a couple months before we released the first version of Neatline, I drove up to Washington to give a little demo of the...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Fall 2014 Scholars’ Lab GIS Workshop Series
All sessions are one hour and assume attendees have no previous experience using GIS. Sessions will be hands-on with step-by-step tutorials with expert assistance. All sessions will be taught by our...
View ArticleFall 2014 Scholars’ Lab GIS Workshop Series
All sessions are one hour and assume attendees have no previous experience using GIS. Sessions will be hands-on with step-by-step tutorials with expert assistance. All sessions will be taught on...
View ArticleVisualizing Early America through MapScholar and Beyond
Hello, DH World! As this is my first official post as a DH Grad Fellow in the Scholars’ Lab, I’d like to start it by thanking the folks in the Lab for the opportunity to join the team for this academic...
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Minard + Napoleon + Neatline
[Cross-posted from dclure.org] Open the Exhibit Yesterday I made the hop across the country to Boston for the NEH Workshop on Digital Methods for Military History at Northeastern University, where I’ll...
View ArticleSpring 2015 Scholars’ Lab GIS Workshop Series
All sessions are one hour and assume attendees have no previous experience using GIS. Sessions will be hands-on with step-by-step tutorials with expert assistance. All sessions, except where noted,...
View ArticleMoving People/Linking Lives DH Symposium
I am pleased to announce that “Moving People, Linking Lives: An Interdisciplinary Symposium” will take place March 20-21, 2015 at the University of Virginia. Friday, March 20 events will take place in...
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Can you get the data out of this file?
That was the question I was asked by a student who came into the Scholars’ Lab this semester. My answer is always, “Yes. That can be done.” Wether I know how at the time is a different matter, but...
View ArticleUVa Library Fall 2015 GIS Workshops
All sessions are one hour and assume attendees have no previous experience using GIS. Sessions will be hands-on with step-by-step tutorials with expert assistance. All sessions will be taught on...
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