✨✨Maps & newspaper research from LwM & MRM teams (@danielwilson.bsky.social @joshrhodes.bsky.social @jonhistorian61.bsky.social @nottinauta.bsky.social @ruthahnert.bsky.social @npedrazzini.bsky.social @kallewesterling.bsky.social + more) featured in @pnas.org this week! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Two new teasers from the forthcoming Italian Itineraries data for routes in Italy, #16thc - #18thc. On the left, heat map showing difficulty of travel based on elevation and slope. On the right, shortest route by km between Rome and Bologna #earlymodern #digitalhistory 🗃️

Italian route network is done! 8 influential itinerary books from the #16thcentury through the #18thcentury ready for Maps-style route planning. We're on track for sharing the shapefiles in coming weeks as we continue to develop the tool. Watch this space! #earlymodern #digitalhistory 🗃️

Probably one more session of tidying to go before I've got a complete route network for Italy as published #16thCentury - #18thCentury! I like this view of Northern Italy to show that the #earlymodern routes (red) are not just the Roman roads (green). 🗃️ @emdigit.bsky.social

@toffolosandra.bsky.social @flabruni.bsky.social @kaylaecampana.bsky.social @viabundus.bsky.social @geophilologist.bsky.social

📯 New publication! 📯 We are proud to share the outcomes of our NEH workshops in 2024, which brought together researchers from around the world to pilot data-driven approaches to the history of travel 🗃️ #earlymodern #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory read more here: github.com/rmidura/EMDi...

If you’re working on interpersonal encounters produced by early modern mobility, @toffolosandra.bsky.social & I are welcoming abstracts for our ‘Mobility & Encounter’ panel @srsrensoc.bsky.social in Bristol next July! Deadline 15 Sep: tinyurl.com/bdhs2hfc #skystorians #earlymodern #RenSA25

Ended up somewhat overcommitted this semester (at least given the general environmental chaos), but it is hard to regret working with so many student researchers on @emdigit.bsky.social. Just logging in to the Trello board this morning reminded me that #digitalhumanities collaboration = community ☺️

Made it to Rome, Bologna and Florence this week in #historicalGIS data cleaning for @emdigit.bsky.social. This time I'm sharing it with a page from one of the itineraries for comparison (OC1623, or Ottavio Codogno's 1623 Compendio delle poste) #earlymodern #bookhistory 🗃️

A Journey to the Far North in the Middle Ages https://www.medievalists.net/2023/12/journey-far-north-middle-ages/ #Arctic #MedievalHistory

New on advance access: "The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument" by Luca Scholz (University of Manchester) #OpenAccess academic.oup.com/past/advance...

Progressed up to the ankle of southern Italy this week. Early modern itineraries based on named locations, narrative, topography, and Roman-modern road networks. Bonus 17C map for comparison 🤩 #historicalGIS #digitalhistory @emdigit.bsky.social

#HelloESR, Hi #skystorians, Rome is soon entering its jubilee year, so I thought I'd talk a little about the Urbs in the 1570s through the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/collection/i...

I wrote a new thing about travel and history and the human landscape. If you enjoy it please share! 👍

Spent the first part of today's #DayOfDH2024 in ArcGIS adjusting @emdigit.bsky.social routes (red lines) to account for elevation, Roman roads (blue lines), and locations where authors indicated crossing bodies of water (blue points) or shifting to travel by boat (icons).

looking forward to some mappy fun in FL! (This Thursday evening)

Pilgrimage contents (by request) #newbooks #medievalsky #skystorians #pilgrimage

Oops, trying again with better quality images and alt text. Haven't had my coffee yet ☕

We're working on it! :) @emdigit.bsky.social

Today's accomplishment: prepping this interactive map for Wednesday's @emdigit.bsky.social webinar showing the routing of #earlymodern Europe in Italian itineraries, 1562-1720 🗃️

Given the X-odus (see what we did there? A true fire bird): which other #earlymodern centres have arrived here already? We've got a starter pack for easy following, but keen to hear about more: go.bsky.app/LLzFj3b #skystorians

I have created a starter pack for scholars of the long seventeenth century! I will be adding to it; do comment or message if you would like to be added - & share! go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq

GOOD NEWS for the discipline: there are *many* #earlymodern historians. Bad news: we couldn't all squeeze into one pack. So here's the second, do follow all the wonderful researchers in this one as well: go.bsky.app/NQqDFr1 #skystorians

Some days you just need to put on headphones and adjust points in GIS. Route network from four different itinerary books published 1562-1610 shown here w/ borders c.1600 @emdigit.bsky.social #earlymodern #digitalhistory

MarineLives is launching a Collaboratory for doctoral students interested in the application of large language models to historical research #earlymodern #Skystorians @tedunderwood.me @timhitchcock.bsky.social github.com/Addaci/marin...

#c18 #dh 🗃️

For comparison, this is what Google Maps will show you, even putting it on "walking," as I know many of us do to try and get a sense of earlier travel. Those Swiss passes were not the optimal choice up until the modern era, in most cases! ⛰️

Making progress, bit by bit! Showing the successful use of @emdigit.bsky.social to find the best #earlymodern journey, here from Milan to Erding in Bavaria. Eight Italian-language itineraries printed in 1562-1720 make up a network of more than 4.5k nodes and 7.5k edges. Path improvements up next!

CfP #IMC2025 – “Digital and Quantitative Approaches to Medieval Mobility” This session explores innovative digital and/or quantitative methodologies for studying medieval mobility. Please submit your application to [email protected] by 24th September 2024.

Happening today! Come learn about new work mapping pilgrims, roads, and of course, itineraries of all varieties, featuring @viabundus.bsky.social, @geophilologist.bsky.social, @toffolosandra.bsky.social #dh2024

Viabundus on the Road: Meet our PI Bart Holterman today in Washington D.C. at #DH2024 (dh2024.adho.org). In the panel "Grounding Truth: Critical and Data-Driven Approaches to the History of Travel" @rmidura.bsky.social and other @emdigit.bsky.social members discuss premodern spatial data. Fresh!

CFP: Travellers in Ottoman Lands, places forgotten, places remembered | MEMOs #twitterstorians #earlymoderntwitter #earlymodernevents #medievaltwitter #medievalevents t.co/VAf3jkOt7Z

Arrived at #dh2024. Pleased to be able to sit in on @neh-odh.bsky.social - funded @emdigit.bsky.social workshop that's happening before the conference.

Participants are gathering in Arlington for the final (🥲) EMDigIt workshop on Monday to present their work over the last year. You can be a part, too, at the "Grounding Truth: Critical and Data-Driven Approaches to the History of Travel" panel at #DH2024 this Thursday (2-3:30PM)!

#EarlyModern GPS in action 🗺️ #17thC Frontispiece from Johann Cristoph Beer, Der getreue Reiß-Gefert (1686)

Question for #17thc #EarlyModern #historians: I've often seen connections drawn between cartographic/atlas production and the Peace of Westphalia, but does anyone know what evidence exists for the use of maps by diplomats/rulers involved? 🗃️

Now published OA! You can download the book here: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50... Thanks @amsterdamupress.bsky.social & @erikagaffney.bsky.social & congratulations Nuno Vila-Santa! 👏👏👏 #seafever #history

#dh2024 conference program appears to be available on the site! Hope you can join @emdigit.bsky.social for "Grounding Truth: Critical and Data-Driven Approaches to the History of Travel" on Thursday, August 8th, 2:00-3:30 😁 #digitalhumanities

So excited to see A World Made by Travel out in the world! Working with Giovanna Ceserani was the on-ramp for most of the work I do with #digitalhumanities and #earlymodern mobility today. Here are some of the most exciting parts of this digital publication for me 🗃️ 1/? aworldmadebytravel.org

One more, just for fun! Here are all the named inns, including my personal favorites, "The Bastard" and "The Inn of the Crazy Women."

More exciting progress on @emdigit.bsky.social ! Here is a map of Italian itineraries published from 1563-1684. Each dot (~3.2k) represents a way-stop. The hazard symbols represent where authors noted everything from difficult terrain to an abundance of wandering soldiers. 🗃️ #earlymodern #17thC

Teaser for tomorrow's #RenSa24 talk, "Merchants, Tourists, and Couriers: Early Modern Digital Itineraries and the Physical Travel of News," on a great looking panel, "Mapping the News." I know there is so much to choose from, but there will be data (and stickers!) :) rsa.confex.com/rsa/2024/mee...

At the airport for a morning flight to speak with the Oberlin History Design Lab about @emdigit.bsky.social! Looking forward to my first time there.

EMDigIt will be at #DH2024!📯 Looking forward to "Grounding Truth: Critical and Data-Driven Approaches to the History of Travel," featuring workshop participants @geophilologist.bsky.social, @toffolosandra.bsky.social , Molly Taylor-Poleskey, and Bart Holterman @viabundus.bsky.social 🗃️ #earlymodern

Sneak peek of an exciting new itinerary disambiguation tool in development! 👀

Thanks to @jmotis.bsky.social for the inspiration, all my digital projects will now have associated stickers 🤩🗃️ #dh #earlymodern

Share your DH expertise with fellow humanists and apply to run your own IATDH. Deadline is Feb 15: www.neh.gov/grants/odh/i...

Check out this new guide for designing crowdsourced transcription projects in Zooniverse, created by Univ of Minnesota & Zooniverse during their Institute for Advanced Topics in DH, Building capable Communities for Crowdsourced Transcriptions:  help.zooniverse.org/getting-star...

Reminder - Call for Applications! 📢 RRCHNM is hosting two Statistics and Network Analysis workshops this August. Those interested in developing a foundation for understanding the assumptions made in #DH methods are invited to apply by February 15, 2024, 11:59 PM. Learn more at: mathhumanists.org