Editors’ Summary: This working paper from the Open Maps Meeting in 2024 showcases the various methodologies and research frameworks adopted by projects involving GIS, spatial mapping, and other technologies. The paper points out that “the digital turn has fostered a spatial one,” which is an important reminder for the DH community to critically engage with how, historically and today, the production of maps often has great epistemological consequences, as they shape how communities perceive knowledge, identity, and social influence. DH scholars who engage with digital mapping research should always be tentative about maps being one type of representation, not the truth, of the community that they cover. As such, this paper serves both as a reference of the digital methodologies used by other projects but also as a reference of the theoretical frameworks adopted by others to humanistically engage with mapping and visual representation techniques.
Editors’ Choice: Open Maps: New Research Directions and Workflows for Digitized Historical Cartographic Material | Open Maps Meeting
