FP7: Spatial Humanities

Project: Research

Description

This five-year project runs from 2012-16, funded by the European Research Council under a Starting Researcher Grant. The project aims to create a step-change in the way that place, space and geography are explored in the humanities. Building on Lancaster's technical expertise in Digital Humanities, Corpus Linguistics and Historical Geographical Information Systems (HGIS) and applied expertise in Lake District literature and social history, the project is developing and applying methodologies to allow unstructured texts - including books, newspapers and official reports - to be analysed in a in a manner that stresses space, place and mapping.

Status	Finished
Effective start/end date	1/01/12 → 31/12/16
Links	http://www.lancs.ac.uk/spatialhum

Funding

European Commission: £1,089,379.00

Gregory, Ian (Principal Investigator)
Hardie, Andrew (Team Member)
Rayson, Paul (Team Member)
Donaldson, Christopher (Team Member)
Murrieta-Flores, Patricia (Research Associate)
Rupp, C.j. (Team Member)
Hardie, Andrew (Co-Investigator)

Project relations

FP7: Spatial Humanities
Project: Research
FP7: Spatial Humanities
Project: Research

Project relations

FP7: Spatial Humanities
Project: Research
FP7: Spatial Humanities
Project: Research

Activities

Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting 2016
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Association of American Geographers 2015
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Spatial Humanities Conference 2016
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
British Library Labs Roadshow, 2016
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Digital Humanities Quarterly (Journal)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
Spatial Humanities Conference 2016
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
How to do Things with Millions of Words
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
New approaches to analysing large newspaper corpora
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Press/Media

British Library Labs Awards (2015): Research category Award winning project
Press/Media: Newspaper Article
Charting New Territory: the Intersection of Language and Geography
Press/Media: Newspaper Article
British Library Digital Scholarship Blog: A temporal & spatial investigation of disease in 19th century British newspapers
Press/Media: Newspaper Article

Research outputs

Explaining geographical variations in English rural infant mortality decline using place-centred reading
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Combining statistics and texts using GIS: nineteenth century health reports
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
GIS, spatial technologies and digital mapping
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Automatically analysing large texts in a GIS environment: the Registrar General’s reports and cholera in the nineteenth century
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Literary mapping in the digital age
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
Spatializing and analysing digital texts: corpora, GIS and places
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Challenges and opportunities for digital history
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
From historical GIS to spatial humanities: challenges and opportunities
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Geoparsing, GIS and textual analysis: current developments in spatial humanities research
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Dealing with heterogeneous big data when geoparsing historical corpora
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
Further frontiers in GIS: extending spatial analysis to textual sources in archaeology
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Geographical text analysis: digital cartographies of Lake District literature
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Mapping ‘Wordsworthshire’: a GIS study of literary tourism in Victorian Lakeland
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Distant readings of the geographies in text corpora: mapping Norman Nicholson’s poems and letters
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
From digital resources to historical scholarship with the British Library 19th Century Newspaper Collection
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Digital literary geography and the difficulties of locating 'Redgauntlet Country'
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Implementing corpus analysis and GIS to examine historical accounts of the English Lake District
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Modelling space in historical texts
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Geoparsing, GIS, and Textual Analysis: Current Developments in Spatial Humanities Research
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Patterns of infant mortality in rural England and Wales, 1850-1910
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Distant readings of the geographies in text corpora: mapping Norman Nicholson’s poems and letters
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
GIS and literary history: advancing digital humanities research through the spatial analysis of historical travel writing and topographical literature
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Lancaster: Remembering 1914-18
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
Child welfare in Victorian newspapers: corpus-based discourse analysis
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
A deeply annotated testbed for geographical text analysis: The Corpus of Lake District Writing
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
The Routledge Companion to Spatial History
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
Introduction: Spatial History, History and GIS
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter
Space and Time in 100 Million Words: Health and Disease in a Nineteenth-century Newspaper
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Cruzando fronteras en Humanidades Digitales: Análisis Geográfico de Textos de interés histórico y arqueológico con Sistemas de Información Geográfica
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Which 'Lancaster' do you mean? Disambiguation challenges in extracting place names for Spatial Humanities
Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Abstract › peer-review
Automatically analysing large texts in a GIS environment: the Registrar General’s reports and cholera in the nineteenth century
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Towards spatial humanities: historical GIS and spatial history
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
From historical GIS to spatial humanities: deepening scholarship and broadening technology
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
From historical GIS to spatial humanities: an evolving literature
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Geographical text analysis: a new approach to understanding nineteenth-century mortality
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Geographical text analysis: GIS approaches to analysing large volumes of texts
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
Digital approaches to understanding the geographies in literary and historical texts
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
Geographical Text Analysis Mapping and spatially analysing corpora
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
Integrating corpus linguistics and spatial technologies for the analysis of literature
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
Locating the beautiful, picturesque, sublime and majestic: spatially analysing the application of aesthetic terminology in descriptions of the English Lake District
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Alts, Abbreviations, and AKAs: historical onomastic variation and automated named entity recognition
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Spatial modelling of rural infant mortality and occupation in nineteenth-century Britain
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Representations of Poverty and Place: Using Geographical Text Analysis to understand discourse
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
Hearing the silence: Finding the middle ground in the spatial humanities?: Extracting and comparing perceived silence and tranquility in the English Lake District
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

Research