Affordable and Expedient: Platforms and Technologies for the Capture and Cartographic Presentation of Linguistic and Cultural Data
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Presentation
Change log
Authors
Maples, Stacey
Abstract
An English language (as opposed to technical and incomprehensible) overview of current technologies and platforms for mapping, from fieldwork to presentation. Emphasis will be upon inexpensive (or free), high-tech, low-tech and no-tech solutions for capturing, managing, analysing and presenting ethnographic information.
Description
This presentation was given at the World Oral Literature Project 2012 workshop Charting Vanishing Voices: A Collaborative Workshop to Map Endangered Oral Cultures.
Keywords
Oral Literature, Oral Tradition, Linguistic Anthropology, GIS, Mapping, Cartographic presentation