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- for Slavic Humanists and Social Scientists
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- System for storing and retrieving geographic information
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- Visualize, analyze, display spatial data
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- Tool for relating disparate resources to create new knowledge
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- Look for patterns in data that are otherwise hidden
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- Looking for patterns
- Change in distribution of architecture over time
- http://green.lib.washington.edu/website/ceir/brumfield
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- Looking for patterns
- Distribution of readership
- Literacy rates & demographics (employment, income, industry)
- Linguistic trends
- Distribution of library users
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- Looking for patterns…
- Places of Anna Akhmatova
- -What works did she write in each place?
- -Does this provide any insight into her work?
- -What other writers wrote about or in the same places?
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- Points
- Places, houses, trees, thoughts…
- Vectors
- Roads, rivers, paths, fences…
- Polygons
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- Coordinate systems
- Geographic
- Latitude and longitude based on equator
- Not uniform distances
- Projected
- Preserves spatial distances
- Just know that there’s a difference, and it can change how things look…
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- Georeferencing
- Converting an image (raster data) to something that is “tied” to the
earth’s surface
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- Geography Network
- FreeGIS
- RussianAtlas.net
- Russian Federation Digital Data
- Digital Chart of the World
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- Find a georeferenced map of interest (or georeference one)
- Create new layers to display your data
- Add attributes
- Link attributes from a database to points/vectors/polygons on your map
- Add (or create) additional layers as needed
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Notes
