As promised, here are my notes from the lightning talk I gave yesterday at the Digital Humanities Symposium at UCLA. I spoke on my Litmap project, which is a Google Maps mash-up I’ve put together for the purpose of mapping the books that I’m writing on in my dissertation. As you can see, it’s a [...]
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Litmap Presentation Notes
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Subway-Style United States Interstate System Map, by Chris Yates
Thanks to my friend Brendan Piper for posting the link to this map on facebook. Too bad the Interstate system isn’t actually a subway! I’d love to jump on right now and go to visit a few friends at some of those stops. I wouldn’t even mind changing lines a few times.
Of course this particular [...]
LA Public Library Maps Exhibit
I went downtown to the LA Central Library for the first time today. It’s something I’ve been meaning to do for ages, since it’s something of an historical and architectural landmark, and apparently the third largest public library in the U.S. in terms of books and periodical holdings. I didn’t wander around the building all [...]
