Curriculum

Round 1 — November 15-18, 2009

Track 1: Stewardship

For library, museum, GIS and digital humanities center professionals: providing rich geospatial content and open, flexible access in support of humanities scholarship.

Track 2: Software

For web developers, designers, systems administrators, and information scientists: spatially enabling web projects and building service-oriented GIS infrastructure.

Round 2 — May 25-27, 2010

Track 3: Scholarship

For humanities scholars and advanced graduate students: exploring space and place in next-generation digital humanities scholarship.

Stewardship Track Agenda

Sunday, November 15, 2009

1:00 pm–2:15 pm—Scholars' Lab Common Room
Welcome and overview, quick agenda review with introduction to faculty, and lightning presentations by faculty. (Joint session with both tracks.)
2:30 pm–4:00 pm—Alderman 413
Breakout session for Stewardship track: longer introductions of the participants, in depth review of the agenda and goals of the track, and show and tell by attendees.
6:00 pm–8:00 pm—Colonnade Club
Working dinner

Monday, November 16, 2009

8:30 am–9:00 am—Clemons 201
Continental breakfast
9:00 am–Noon—Clemons 407
Geospatial Data Librarianship (led by Julie Sweetkind-Singer)
Noon–1:00 pm—Alderman 411
Box Lunches
1:00 pm–4:00 pm—Alderman 317
Support for Spatial Thinking in the Humanities Curriculum (led by Diana Sinton)
Evening
OpenStreetMapping on the UVa campus.
Evening
Dinner on your own.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

8:30 am–9:00 am—Byrd/Morris Room (Small)
Continental breakfast
9:00 am–Noon—Byrd/Morris Room (Small)
Geospatial Data and Tools in Humanities Research (led by Bethany Nowviskie and Joshua Greenberg)
Noon–1:00 pm—Alderman 411
Box Lunches
1:00 pm–4:00 pm—Byrd/Morris Room (Small)
The Big Show-and-Tell: Institute faculty offer project demos (Joint session with both tracks.)
Evening
Dinner on your own

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 (GIS Day)

8:30 am–9:00 amHarrison/Small Auditorium
Continental breakfast
9:00 am–Noon—Harrison/Small Auditorium
Policies for Libraries and Cultural Heritage Institutions (led by Madelyn Wessel)
Noon–1:00 pm—Alderman 411
Box Lunches
1:00 pm–2:00 pm—Scholars' Lab Common Room
Closing Discussion and Information Sharing: Support for Scholarship of Space and Place (held in the Scholars’ Lab: tracks report out) (Joint session with both tracks.)
2:00 pm–3:00 pm—Harrison/Small Auditorium
Continuation of closing discussion with Stewardship track. Final thoughts, discussion of information clearinghouse.
4:00 pm—Harrison/Small Auditorium
GIS Day talk: Andrew Turner
5:00 pm—Harrison/Small Auditorium
GIS Day reception

Software Track Agenda

Sunday, November 15, 2009

1:00 pm–2:15 pm—Scholars' Lab Common Room
Welcome and overview, quick agenda review with introduction to faculty, and lightning presentations by faculty. (Joint session with both tracks.)
2:30 pm–4:00 pm—Scholars' Lab Common Room
Breakout session for Software track: longer introductions of the participants, in depth review of the agenda and goals of the track, overview of tools, and show and tell by attendees.
6:00 pm–8:00 pm—Colonnade Club
Working dinner

Monday, November 16, 2009

8:30 am–9:00 am—Clemons 201
Continental breakfast
9:00 am–Noon—Clemons 201
Geospatial data standards and formats (led by Andrew Turner) — Shapefiles, KML, syndicated formats. What's right for a web-based approach?
Noon–1:00 pm—Alderman 411
Box Lunches
1:00 pm–4:00 pm—Clemons 201
Geospatial metadata, search and discovery (led by Joe Gilbert, Wayne Graham, & Adam Soroka) — ISO standards, FGDC, Dublic Core. Lucene/Solr and other search approaches.
Evening
OpenStreetMapping on the UVa campus.
Evening
Dinner on your own.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

8:30 am–9:00 am—Byrd/Morris Room (Small)
Continental breakfast
9:00 am–Noon—Clemons 201
Databases, web services, and delivering geospatial content (led by Sean Gillies) — PostGIS, OGC web services, and alternative, RESTful approaches.
Noon–1:00 pm—Alderman 411
Box Lunches
1:00 pm–4:00 pm—Byrd/Morris Room (Small)
The Big Show-and-Tell: Institute faculty offer project demos (Joint session with both tracks.)
Evening
Dinner on your own

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 (GIS Day)

8:30 am–9:00 am—Harrison/Small Auditorium
Continental breakfast
9:00 am–Noon—Clemons 201
Applications and interfaces (led by Schuyler Erle & Shekhar Krishnan) — OpenLayers, NYPL map rectifier, other examples such as GeoCommons, Pleiades.
Noon–1:00 pm—Alderman 411
Box Lunches
1:00 pm–2:00 pm—Scholars' Lab Common Room
Closing Discussion and Information Sharing: Support for Scholarship of Space and Place (held in the Scholars’ Lab: tracks report out) (Joint session with both tracks.)
2:00 pm–3:00 pm—Scholars' Lab Common Room
Continuation of closing discussion with Software track. Final thoughts, discussion of information clearinghouse.
4:00 pm—Harrison/Small Auditorium
GIS Day talk: Andrew Turner
5:00 pm—Harrison/Small Auditorium
GIS Day reception

Scholarship Track Agenda

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

8:30 am—Harrison/Small Auditorium
Breakfast
9:00 am—Harrison/Small Auditorium

Spatial Questions, Spatial Arguments

  • Obstacles and opportunities for spatial thinking in the humanities (Martyn Jessop)
  • Enhanced interrogation: GIS and historical revisionism (Anne Knowles & Ben Ray)
  • Navigating arguments: Examples of geo-temporal argumentation in HyperCities (Todd Presner)
Noon—Scholars' Lab
Lunch
1:30 pm—Harrison/Small Auditorium

Acts of Translation

  • Project design and textual sources in geospatial research (Anne Knowles)
  • Maps as sources (Matt Knutzen)
  • The collaborative model of geospatial scholarship (Todd Presner)
4:30 pm
Free time
6:00 pm
Dinner—UVa Rotunda

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

8:30 am—Harrison/Small Auditorium
Breakfast
9:00 am

Making Your First Map—Byrd/Morris Rooms

Framing the topic: Anne Kelly Knowles
Led by Dave Richardson
Download data

OR

Acquiring and Documenting Geospatial Data: Georeferencing, digitizing, geocoding, and metadata principles—Harrison/Small Auditorium

Framing the topic: Matt Knutzen
Led by Kelly Johnston
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Noon—Scholars' Lab
Lunch
1:30 pm

Acquiring and Documenting Geospatial Data: Georeferencing, digitizing, geocoding, and metadata principles—Harrison/Small Auditorium

Framing the topic: Matt Knutzen
Led by Kelly Johnston
Download data

OR

Methods of Geospatial Analysis—Byrd/Morris Rooms

Framing the topic: Anne Kelly Knowles
Led by Chris Gist
Download data

4:30 pm
Free time
6:00 pm
OpenStreetMap mapping party in UVA gardens; dinner on your own

Thursday, May 27, 2010

8:30 am—Harrison/Small Auditorium
Breakfast
9:00 am—Harrison/Small Auditorium

Modeling Geo-temporal Realities

  • Linking time and place (Bethany Nowviskie)
  • The Tibet & Himalayas Project (David Germano)
  • Discussion of the challenges of geospatial humanities scholarship
Noon—Scholars' Lab
Lunch
1:30 pm—Harrison/Small Auditorium

Data acquisition, fair use, and copyright (Madelyn Wessel)

2:30 pm—Harrison/Small Auditorium
Break
3:30 pm—Harrison/Small Auditorium

Frontiers in Spatial Humanities: Lightning Presentations (all participants; open to public)

5:00 pm—Harrison/Small Auditorium

Closing reception