Writing Session
On the second day of our workshop we opened our day’s discussion with a round of lightning talks in which participants were invited to comment or pose questions on their mapping and visualisation methodologies as well as to broader theoretical questions related to their use in the study of history. Some participants expanded on points and questions that had been raised in the discussion the previous day:
Some Questions Raised in Discussion (on day one)
We then divided into four groups and asked each group to bring their ideas together into a single blog entry for posting here. This brought together some of the thoughts from the lightning talks, the questions raised the day before and generally aimed at providing more concrete suggestions.
The result was the following four group-authored postings:
On Big Data (small data) and (trans)national sources
The Value of Visualisation and the Responsibilities of the Visualiser
How to get through time, money, and institutional constraints
The group writing discussion exercise seems to have worked well, and was followed by reports from each of the groups on their ideas. The afternoon continued with tutorials on the use of QGIS by Hans Blomme and a presentation which highlighted the possibilities, performance, and challenges of using WebGL and Three.js with Tobias Englmeier.
