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Barbara Hui

Formerly a full-time database/webdev/IT geek, I'm currently a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at UCLA where I am completing my dissertation on the representation of space, place, and complex global networks in several late 20th-C. German- & English-language works of literature.

I'm also working as a systems developer on a few Digital Humanities enterprises at UCLA: Prof. Timothy Tangherlini’s Danish Folklore and Korean Folklore projects and Prof. Lisa Parkes’s Virtual Study Abroad project. In addition, I've done extensive development on Prof. Todd Presner’s Hypercities platform.

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Mapping Literature

Friday, June 26th, 2009 | barbarahui

Apologies for the extremely last-minute post, which I’m writing on the plane en route to THATCamp!

In a nutshell, what I’d like to discuss in this session is the mapping of literature. By this I mean not only strictly geographical mappings (i.e. cartographical/GIS representations of space and place) but also perhaps more abstract and conceptual mappings that don’t lend themselves so well to mathematical geospatial mash-ups.

How can we (and do we already) play with the possibilities of existing technology to create great DH tools to read literature spatially?

I’ll first demo my Litmap project and hopefully that’ll serve as a springboard for discussion. You can read more about Litmap and look at it ahead of time here.

Very much looking forward to a discussion with all of the great people who are going to be there!

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