Intro
This content was presented as a workshop to the Monroe Library Teaching & Learning Team on August 8, 2018. Slides from that workshop will be available in Wolf-LOR, the learning objects repository.
Examples
Unfathomable City by Call Number: G1364 .N5 S6 2013ISBN: 9780520274037
- My Maps: Irish Channel Projectproject description available here
Related Guides
Access the Tools
1. My Maps (Google) https://mymaps.google.com/
2. StoryMapJS (Northwestern Univeristy Knight Lab) https://storymap.knightlab.com/
Data Sources
City of New Orleans Open Data GIS Portal available at https://portal-nolagis.opendata.arcgis.com/ "The City's new public platform for exploring, visualizing, and downloading location-based Open Data."
- Public Libraries (CSV)data downloaded from: https://data.nola.gov/dataset/Public-Libraries/gvw2-nxwj
- Festivals and Markets (CSV)data downloaded from: https://data.nola.gov/dataset/Festivals-and-Markets/23ub-f52j
Handouts and Practice Files
- My Maps (Google) HandoutThe handout focusing on importing data into My Maps
- StoryMapJS Practice FileA list of concert locations with "dummy text" generated from: https://www.lipsum.com/
Post-workshop exploration
- MORE EXAMPLES - Musical Geography: Mapping Place and Movement Through Music History"How can mapping change the way we think about music history? We’re exploring the intersections of space, time, and sound through map-centered investigations of music and musicians."
Also includes a research blog with reflections on the process of researching/creating the maps featured on the site. - OPEN SOURCE TOOL - Story Maps (ESRI)Esri Story Maps let you combine authoritative maps with narrative text, images, and multimedia content.
This tool has several templates to create different types of maps: tour, map journal, map cascade, map series (tabbed layout, slide accordion layout or bulleted layout), shortlist, comparison of two maps (swipe layout or spyglass layout).
Systems & Information Resources Librarian
MAGIRT Resources
A Round Table of the American Library Association, The Map and Geospatial Information Round Table (MAGIRT) leads and inspires information professionals at all levels of expertise in their work with map and geospatial information resources, collections and technologies in all formats, through community, education and advocacy.
- Data Sourcesprovides links and descriptions to spatial data sources from state and local agencies for North America
- MAGIRT presentation ALA 2018slides from "Understanding and Using Spatial Humanities: Digital Mapping at the Forefront of Scholarly Research" at the ALA Annual Conference 2018