{"id":439,"date":"2014-01-17T11:20:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T11:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/?page_id=439"},"modified":"2017-11-16T17:26:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T17:26:03","slug":"our-aims","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/?page_id=439","title":{"rendered":"Our Aims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Integrating techniques from Computational Linguistics, Cultural Geography\u00a0and Spatial Analysis, our interdisciplinary team is developing tools and methods for historians and literary scholars who are interested in exploring textual information within a <a title=\"Geographic Information Systems (GIS)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/?page_id=12\">Geographical Information Systems (GIS)<\/a> environment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We conducted two major applied studies to demonstrate how these methods can generate new avenues of interpretation and inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>The first of these studies brought together a corpus (comprising over 1,500,000 words) of letters, journals, and guidebooks in order to chart the cultural evolution of the <a title=\"Mapping Lake District Literature\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/?page_id=43\">English Lake District <\/a>from the early 17c to the early 20c. The second study drew on the Registrar General\u2019s Reports for England and Wales, from 1801 to 1937,\u00a0in order to assess<a title=\"19th-Century Newspapers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/?page_id=45\"> patterns of disease and mortality during the nineteenth century<\/a>. In both cases our preliminary findings affirm how Literary and Historical GIS projects not only facilitate the discovery of new trends and constellations of relationship, but also promote the experimental articulation of new ideas.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to these studies, we also worked\u00a0 to\u00a0enhance the skills-base in the spatial humanities by running free\u00a0<a title=\"GIS Summer School\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/?page_id=53\">summer schools<\/a> and <a title=\"GIS Seminars\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/?page_id=55\">seminars<\/a>\u00a0on the application of GIS within humanities research. Please check our <a title=\"Skills Development &amp; Training\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/?page_id=47\">Skills Development<\/a> page for more details.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cropped-bg1_021.jpg\" alt=\"cropped-bg1_021.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cropped-bg1_021.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cropped-bg1_021-300x43.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cropped-bg1_021-1024x147.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/>\u00a9 Spatial Humanities: Texts, GIS &amp; Places<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Integrating techniques from Computational Linguistics, Cultural Geography\u00a0and Spatial Analysis, our interdisciplinary team is developing tools and methods for historians and literary scholars who are interested in exploring textual information within a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) environment. We conducted two major applied studies to demonstrate how these methods can generate new avenues of interpretation and inquiry. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/?page_id=439\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our Aims<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-439","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1647,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/439\/revisions\/1647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}