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This paper presents challenges and opportunities resulting from the application of geographical information systems (GIS) in the (digital) humanities. First, we provide an overview of the intersection and interaction between geography (and cartography), and the humanities. Second, the “GeoBib” project is used as a case study to exemplify challenges for such collaborative, interdisciplinary projects, both for the humanists and the geoscientists. Finally, we conclude with an outlook on further applications of GIS in the humanities, and the potential scientific benefit for both sides, humanities and geosciences.
Extending the possibilities for collaborative work with TEI/XML through the usage of a wiki system
(2013)
This paper presents and discusses an integrated project-specific working environment for editing TEI/XML-files and linking entities of interest to a dedicated wiki system. This working environment has been specifically tailored to the workflow in our interdisciplinary digital humanities project GeoBib. It addresses some challenges that arose while working with person-related data and geographical references in a growing collection of TEI/XML-files. While our current solution provides some essential benefits, we also discuss several critical issues and challenges that remain.
Uncertain about Uncertainty: Different ways of processing fuzziness in digital humanities data
(2014)
The GeoBib project is constructing a georeferenced online bibliography of early Holocaust and camp literature published between 1933 and 1949 (Entrup et al. 2013a). Our immediate objectives include identifying the texts of interest in the first place, composing abstracts for them, researching their history, and annotating relevant places and times. Relations between persons, texts, and places will be visualized using digital maps and GIS software as an integral part of the resulting GeoBib information portal. The combination of diverse data from varying sources not only enriches our knowledge of these otherwise mostly forgotten texts; it also confronts us with vague, uncertain or even conflicting information. This situation yields challenges for all researchers involved – historians, literary scholars, geographers and computer scientists alike. While the project operates at the intersection of historical and literary studies, the involved computer scientists are in charge of providing a working environment (Entrup et al. 2013b) and processing the collected information in a way that is formalized yet capable of dealing with inevitable vagueness, uncertainty and contradictions. In this paper we focus on the problems and opportunities of encoding and processing fuzzy data.