LEARNING RESOURCES


In this section you can access presentations and lectures that our team has prepared on different topics. We are also working to offer soon other materials such as podcasts and GIS practicals . Feel free to contact us anytime.

  • 2012Video: Spatial Humanities: Exploring and analysing texts within a GIS environmet. Patricia Murrieta, David Cooper and Ian Gregory present an introductory talk to the work that we have develop so far in terms of the use of spatial analysis to analyse texts. Keywords: GIS, Spatial analysis, texts, Histpop, Census data, Registrar General Reports, Digital Humanities.

  • 2012Video: Which 'Lancaster' do you mean? Lecture prepared by Paul Rayson, Alistair Baron and Andrew Hardie about the disambiguation challenges of extracting placenames for Spatial Humanities. Keywords: Corpus Linguistics, Text analysis, disambiguation, spatial humanities. PDF download.

  • 2012Video: Literary GIS: A Geocentric Approach. By David Cooper. Coming soon...

  • 2012Video: Using Geographic Information Systems to Study the Literature of the English Lake District. Prepared by Ian Gregory and David Cooper, this presentation explored some of the ways GIS was used to analyse literature in a the pilot project 'Mapping the Lakes". Keywords: Literature, GIS, Spatial analysis, texts, Lake District, Census data, Literary Geographies, Digital Humanities. PDF download.