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In this post on the NiCHE website Jim Clifford (@jburnford) discusses how to map historical change using the new time functions in ArcGIS via NiCHE: GIS and Time.

An impressive Google Maps-based exploration of a natural disaster. Sanna Dullaway has used the Google Maps My Maps option to create a 2011 Japanese Tsunami Video Map. The map includes…

My thinking has been that, if functionality is to be measured by actual usefulness to produce tangible change or discourse in society, data visualization leaves a lot to be desired.…

When Modular and the Owl Project set up a small floating hydro-electric power unit on the Tyne in Newcastle, it was also the start of an innovative data visualisation project.…

The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is at the heart of California’s water supply. This inland delta, where two major rivers converge and mingle with San Francisco Bay tides, has been re-engineered…

Welcome to the Map of Life first demonstration release! The current release allows you to explore globally the geographic distributions for any terrestrial vertebrate species (as well as North American…

A great article about what the digital humanities are and can be - very interesting for environmental historians! LIKE PYRAMID-BUILDING itself, the work of the humanities is to create the…

Sean Kheraj discusses the emerging digital environmental history community. Environmental historians have been gaining a reputation for innovation in digital history. via Digital Environmental History Highlights #1: H-Environment Roundtable Reviews…

Another post in the debate spurred by the digital presence at #ASEH2012 in Madison, drawing a parallelism between the ongoing conversation about digital humanities and the one journalists have had…