Generating Narratives through Timespace Data...

Generating Narratives through Time-Space Data

Chiung-min TsaiResearch Center for Digital Humanities

National Taiwan University

June 5, 2013

Purpose

• A narrative is a representation of a history, biography, or process in which a sequence of events has been constructed into a coherent story.

• Telling stories trough space and time

• Uncovering or answering new questions about past times, past spaces

Emerging Trend

• Geo-visualization • Geospatial Narratives • Spatial Humanities • Deep Maps • Qualitative GIS • Narrative GIS

Humanities versus GIScontrasting epistemologies

• GIS – space as entities, fields, objects, attributes, spatial primitives, geometric

topology, schemas, focus on accuracy and precision, and ultimately, reductionism

– Spatial analysis, modeling, optimizing solution space– Scientific method – quantitative and cartographic space

• Humanities– Nuanced emphasis on the individual and the unique– Prominent role of story telling and multiple media– Question the emergent complex of text and narrative– Interlace textures of experience, memory, artifact– Maintain imprecision, uncertainty, ambiguity

GIS as a Narrative Platform

Data

(1) Event: semantic elements (who did what), (2) Time: temporal elements (when), (3) Place: spatial elements (where)

Data Representation

• Types of Spatial Data: – points, – lines, – polygons

• Coverage of different time

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Old Land Deeds of Taiwan

03/10/2010 ISGC 11

Deed type

Names of the sellers

Name of the buyer

Location and boundaries of the land

The price

The date

Names of the witnesses and thescrivener

Signatures of the sellers

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GIS info about the Japanese Colonial Records sub-collection

國中圖臺灣總督府檔案抄錄契約文書 ( 15899 件 )

過濾出可判別地號的部份 ( 約 12000 件 )

利用自動化的方式區分出地點( 堡庄名完全比對與模糊比對 )

透過 ArcGIS 軟體繪出這些契書的分佈圖

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總督府檔案抄錄契約文書 GIS查詢系統http://thdl.ntu.edu.tw/tools

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點閱metadata、全文及相關人名地名詞頻

查閱特定地方之搜尋結果

連結資料庫瀏覽

1700-1836

1700-1838

1700-1850

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http://newnrch.digital.ntu.edu.tw/prototype/index.php

More Example of Story-telling GIS

http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/civilwar/

http://story.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapTour/index.html?appid=f90046e0ce8e44e2a128f0325fccb2af&webmap=051d2c8302a747ce8335a0a1f106fc86

More Example of Story-telling GIS

http://storymaps.esri.com/snack/

More Example of Story-telling GIS

Clickable Historyhttp://www.byzantinejewry.net/

Q&A