-------- Original Message -------- Subject: new GeoHumanities group Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 16:02:53 +0000 From: Kathy Weimer <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Maps-L, Many of you who are doing fabulous interdisciplinary digital map and GIS projects may want to know about a new group dedicated to GeoHumanities. It is a special interest group of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. ( http://adho.org ) I attended my first ADHO Digital Humanities conference this summer at it was fabulous, with a mix of Humanities scholars, librarians, and IT/technical folks. Here is the official GeoHumanities Special Interest Group announcement: I want to announce the formation of a new ADHO Special Interest Group, *GeoHumanties*.The vision for the GeoHumanities SIG began at the DH2013 conference in Lincoln, where a number of panels and papers addressed questions of place and geographic connections and contexts.The intent of the SIG is to be inclusive of spatial, spatial-temporal and ‘placial’ perspectives, and the Geo-prefix for its name reflects geography’s traditional attention to all of these. The goals of the GeoHumanities SIG are to create a venue for pooling knowledge and best practices for relevant existing digital tools and methods, to foster the collaborative development of shared resources and new tools and extensions to geospatial software, and to keep humanist scholars at large informed about the possibilities and inherent pitfalls in their use.To that end, a web site (www.geohumanities.org), twitter account (@GeoHum_SIG) and listserv for the GeoHumanities SIG have been created to encourage and facilitate communication among members. Please consider subscribing to the listserv to stay informed as we get under way (subscribe here <http://geohumanities.org/list-subscribe>). A copy of the proposal as approved by the ADHO steering committee is here <http://adho.org/proposal_geohumsig.pdf>. It was co-authored by Kathy Weimer (Texas A&M University) and Karl Grossner (Stanford) and co-signed by 15 individuals from 12 institutions in 4 countries. We encourage additional members from all fields and all regions of the globe, and are in the process of establishing a small steering committee.Joining the SIG is a simple process.You can begin by clicking here. <http://geohumanities.org/join> We welcome all interested members to contribute ideas and help shape the SIG for our shared benefit. Follow us on Twitter, and consider joining ADHO and the GeoHumanities SIG, Best, Kathy Katherine H. Weimer Professor Co-Editor, Journal of Map & Geography Libraries Curator of Maps, Cushing Memorial Library & Archives Coordinator, Map & GIS Library Texas A & M University Libraries 5000 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-5000 (979) 845-6588 [log in to unmask] <applewebdata:[log in to unmask]>