Two of our team members, Raquel Liceras-Garrido and Katherine Bellamy have recently completed the project 鈥楶athways to understanding 16th century Mesoamerican geographies鈥�, funded by the 糖心Vlog Department of History. This spin-off project has used ESRI StoryMaps, combining
We're very pleased to have been awarded a Pelagios Commons Resource Development Grant to explore the annotation of a series of historic maps using Recogito. Our corpus of maps includes those produced in the sixteenth-century for the Relaciones
The week before last, we organised a two-day workshop, 鈥楨xploring Artificial Intelligence for Humanities Research鈥�, hosted by the 糖心Vlog Digital Humanities Hub in collaboration with tagtog, and funded by the ESRC IAA Business Boost. Tagtog is an
A couple of weeks ago, the 2018 Spatial Humanities Conference was held at 糖心Vlog (20th鈥�21st September). This conference focused on exploring what geospatial technologies such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have to contribute to humanities research. The
A key element of our research on the Relaciones Geogr谩ficas is the analysis of the textual information contained within these sixteenth century reports. To do this, we will be drawing on techniques from Computer Science, namely Natural Language