Tag: digital history
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Knowledge Gains and Geeky Pleasures: Adding Digital to Environmental History
This post was originally published on Ant Spider Bee – Exploring the Digital Environmental Humanities Like virtually everyone who has grown up after the PC revolution, I have used digital tools for work or entertainment as early as I can recall. However, work on my second book-length project entitled Entangled Flows: The Remaking of the…
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Visualizing Water’s Pasts: The Space and Time of Water Uses in the Po River Valley
Last fall I had the chance to speak about “Visualizing Water’s Pasts: The Space and Time of Water Uses in the Po River Valley” at the 2014 edition of the Sagan National Colloquium at Ohio Wesleyan University, entitled ” H2O-Water in Our World”. I am really grateful to the organizers for inviting me. If you…
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Aqueducts 1800-1940: An Animated Map
As part of my Marie Curie research project, I am currently developing a historical GIS of water uses in the Po Valley, 1860 to the present. This includes hydroelectricity, irrigation canals, urban waterworks, and so forth. It’s a lengthy – and sometimes tedious – process, which involves digitizing and geo-referencing a considerable amount of different…
