Category: Projects

  • New book chapter, due out in May 2015!

    “Representing Canadian Queer Authorship: Making the Internet a Women’s Place,” an essay Constance Crompton and I wrote about the Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada project, will be published in May in Cultural Mapping and the Digital Sphere: Place and Space from the University of Alberta Press.

  • Profile of Constance Crompton and LGLC in “Accelerate Okanagan”

    Accelerate Okanagan published an excellent profile of Constance Crompton and the LGLC project. The article does a great job of providing clear explanations of our project and the digital humanities! “With a small crew of curious students and research assistants, Connie’s academic passion is truly interdisciplinary. Attracting students from the likes of creative writing, social and computer…

  • UBC Announcement for LGLC

    The University of British Columbia has posted a lovely story on “Coding Character,” the SSHRC Insight grant-funded research project that will support Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada for the next five years. Results for the 2013 Insight Grant program have been posted on the SSHRC website. We couldn’t be prouder to have received this grant, and to…

  • Visualizing Gay Liberation in Canada: Using Digital Tools to Represent Identity

    Visualizing Gay Liberation in Canada: Using Digital Tools to Represent Identity from michelinaneri Presented as part of the CSDH/ACCUTE joint session on “Difference, Identity, Diversity” at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences on May 26th, 2014. Some great Tweets from the session: @MichelinaNeri: evolving standards like MARC gender & contributor characteristics have real…

  • Congress 2014

    I will be presenting as part of the CSDH/ACCUTE joint session on “Difference, Identity, Diversity” at Congress 2014 on May 26th. I will be giving a short talk on “Visualizing Gay Liberation in Canada: Using Digital Tools to Represent Identity.” From the call for proposals: “The humanities have long worked to specify, recover, contextualize, and…

  • Visualizing Gay Liberation in Canada: Using Digital Tools to Represent People and Places

    Visualizing Gay Liberation in Canada: Using Digital Tools to Represent People and Places from michelinaneri Some great Tweets from the presentation, courtesy of the amazing keynote speaker, Shawn Micallef. Also @MichelinaNeri talks about “dirty data” problems. Librarians must dream of metadata & dirty data & HTML markups. The new nightmares. — Shawn Micallef (@shawnmicallef) April…

  • Exploring LGLC data with free tools

    Inspired by a recent article, “Tales of an Indiscriminate Tool Adopter,” in the Chronicle of Higher Education, I decided to evaluate some of the suggested tools and see how easy they would be to implement. First was RAW, a visualization tool that helps represent the connections and relationships between and within sets of data. Using…

  • Mapping places in LGLC

    After attending the XSLT workshop at DHSI 2013, I built this map using a KML file created from the XML representing all the places listed in the LGLC dataset. See full example We hope to integrate this data with the event data, and place it into one comprehensive map/timeline similar to the prototype for 1964:

  • Mapping LGLC, 1964

    As part of a Web Mapping Applications course in my GIS program, I’ve been testing out various platforms for mapping the LGLC dataset. First came Google Fusion Tables. Here I used two Fusion Tables, one with the event data from the LGLC dataset and the other which creates the Provincial border polygons using KML coordinates.…

  • At DHSI 2012: Final Outcome

    Quite enjoying my class with Ian Gregory on Geographical Information Systems in the Digital Humanities, so much so that this map resulted: The gay people! They’re spreading!

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