The University of Virginia Libraries has announced the launch of “Spatial Humanities,” a community-driven resource for place-based digital scholarship:
http://spatial.scholarslab.org/
The site was developed in response to needs identified by faculty and the site includes:
- an evolving, crowdsourced catalog of research resources, projects, and organizations
- a set of framing essays on the spatial turn across the disciplines by Dr. Jo Guldi of the Harvard Society of Fellows
- GIS-related feeds from Q&A sites and other forms of social media
- a peer-reviewed, occasional publication for step-by-step tutorials in spatial tools and methods
UVa is inviting everyone to participate:
- use Zotero to freely upload research citations, projects, and links to groups
- contribute your own tutorials and helpsheets in “Step By Step” format for peer review and formal publication
- adopt the #geoinst hashtag on Twitter and Delicious
- ask related questions and offer help on DH Answers or the GIS Stack Exchange
- post commentary on the essays
This looks like another great resource for all scholars.