Map a Timeline is an experiment in three inter-related areas of digital humanities education:
1. Using visual maps to apprehend and elicit temporal and other relationships amongst a given series of events, texts, persons, or things which share a date as one attribute. The sample series for this experiment is a series of readings from a syllabus.
2. Constructing a map visualization which can serve as one of several pedagogical tools in a toolbox of supplemental open access utilities for instructors and learners. The principal technologies enabling this capability are the Javascript mapping library Leaflet, the reverse geocoding service Here, and Google Sheets as the data source for the mapping visualizations.
3. Incorporating analytical and representational features that promote a critical inquiry of the data, the visualizations, and the technology. The primary features enabling this critical inquiry are annotations for every item in the series and a listing of the provenance of the technologies and data used.
For a discusson of the experiment, please refer to the following post:
Introduction to Digital Humanities 2020 - DHUM 70000 – CUNY Graduate Center – Fall 2020